CLASSIC SHORT STORIES
A DIVERSE collection of short stories from the literature of all nations will be heard from 2YC in the programme Imperishable Stories. Beginning on Sunday, April 20, at 6.18 p.m., and continuing weekly, this series of readings will present’ fourteen short stories ranging in time from the preChristian era to the present day. According to O. A. Gillespie, who selected the stories and adapted them for radio presentation, the element common to each story included in this series is the spark of literary immortality. The first to be heard is "How the Greeks Defeated the Persians," by Aeschylus, the Greek poet and dramatist who was born near Athens in 525 B.C. Other ancient writings which follow in the 2YC series include excerpts from the Satyricon, by the Roman commentator Petronius; a moralistic folk-tale by an early, anonymous Chinese author; and a folk-tale of Arabian or Persian origin. Modern authors whose work will be heard later in the series include the German Theodore' Storm; Anatole France, the French Nobel Prize winner of 1921; Jonas Lie, a Norwegian author of the 19th Century; Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright; Israel Zangwill, English-born Jewish journalist; Louis Biro, Austrian dramatist; Henfy Bunner and Ambrose Bierce, American journalists and authors; J. C, Bendrodt, an Australian writer of Canadian birth; and Alexander Kuprin, a Russian writer of pre-Revo-lutionary times. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 21
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224CLASSIC SHORT STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 21
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