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Title: The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Stephen Vincent Benet, Townsend Ludington ISBN: 0-14-043740-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Stories
Comment: This book is incredibly hard to find---Amazon was, as, usual, the only place that had it for me. I was dying to read the story that sparked the movie, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." About seven mountain men who go down to town to git themselves thar brides! I really enjoyed Benet's style; I was completely unfamiliar with his writing previously. I also read "The Devil and Daniel Webster," included, which seems to be the most popular of his writings. It was a good tale. Interesting author, interesting writings. I'm donating my copy to the library; their Benet listings are sadly lacking! Everyone needs a little "backwoodsman" in their lives!
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Benet story
Comment:
Benet wrote this a while back, but it's worth reading, particularly in view of some of the shenangians going on in the Monica affair. Stone sold his soul and lived a long and fruitful life, the devil not bothering him at all due to the promised eventual payoff.
Came time for the payoff, Jabez Stone hired the F. Lee Bailey of the time, silver toungued orator Daniel Webster. The jury was picked by the Devil, no voir dire there. And Webster started his talk. It's good reading today if you can find it.
I have searched hard for a Complete Works of Benet, prose and poetry. His ouevre is not so great that it should be difficult to do. There are many other good stories in there, Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, By the Waters of Babylon, and poems, too, John Brown's Body of course, but How Hillbilly Jim Won The Georgia Fiddler's Contest, too, and a host of others. Benet is not an author to shove away on the back shelves and forget. He deserves to be read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Benet's Twain-Like Take: Is Lucifer a Foreigner?
Comment: This lightweight (literally, if not figuratively) story of the hapless farmer Jabez Stone, of Cross Corners, New Hampshire, and his rescue from a cavalier deal with the devil by Daniel Webster is an entertaining, patriotic lark. Although Webster was a lawyer, the narrator tells us, and the "the biggest man...next to God...He never got to be President." Published in 1937, and with a homespun Twain-like love of freedom and the wry vigilance which watches over it, Stephen Vincent Benet's entertaining lark, set "in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire" is patriotic without being jingoistic or nationalistic. At the end, after the narrator informs us that devil keeps clear of Marshfield and hasn't been seen in New Hampshire he concludes: "I'm not talking about Massachusetts or Vermont."
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Title: John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet, Henry S. Canby ISBN: 092958726X Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title:The Devil & Daniel Webster - Criterion Collection ASIN: B0000AKY54 Publisher: Criterion Collection Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $35.96 |
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Title: Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather ISBN: 0679728899 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Driving Mr. Albert : A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti ISBN: 038533303X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ISBN: 0812505042 Publisher: Tor Classics Pub. Date: 15 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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