The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Title

en_US The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Adolphe Danziger de Castro and Ambrose Bierce

Creator

en_US Bierce, Ambrose

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:44Z

en_US 1996-11

en_US 1930

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1930

Abstract

en_US Both the book and the circumstances here are unusual. The book is unusual because it begins with a statement by an Alphonse de Castro that he was the author of the original The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter under the name of G.A.Danziger. He recounts the story of its publication history, including Bierce's role. Nothing is said about how Bierce's Fantastic Fables come to accompany this short work in this book. I found the book in a small used bookstore after the Skunk train had reached its terminus and before we drove back in a cab to the train's starting point. This collection seems to contain, at its end, a number of stories not included in the Dover reprint of the 1898 original. The earlier stories are in an order only roughly approximating Dover's order. I suspect that some individual fables were dropped in either or both editions. Furthermore, some names are at least slightly different; thus The Poetess of Reform in Dover is The Poet of Reform in Cape, and Life-Savers loses its final s in the latter. Is it only a typo that changes A Racial Parallel in Dover to A Radical Parallel in Cape? (Actually, both titles fit this good anecdote!) No T of C for the fables, which are on 117-264.

Identifier

en_US 2664 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78200

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PS3507.E246 M66 1930

en_US Bierce

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole