The Beginning of Wisdom, the first novel from future Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Vincent Benét, was published in 1921 just after the author's graduation from Yale University. Reflecting the influence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the semiautobiographical work chronicles the coming of age of Philip Sellaby, who, as a young boy, "doesn't know what it is to be bored, has a quantity of humorous vanity, considerable physical recklessness and is beginning to develop from much scattered and unchecked reading an ashamed fierce curiosity in regard to matters of sex." STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT (1898-1943) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A prolific poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, he is best known as the 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" and the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster." He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1929 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1938. He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, a volume of verse.
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STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT (1898-1943) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A prolific poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, he is best known as the 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" and the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster." He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1929 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1938. He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, a volume of verse.
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THE only sound in the big front room is the faint growling of the bright coal fire as it chars to the ruddiness of a winter apple behind the three black bars of its grate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Esteban, Major Stelly, Miss Hollis, San Francisco, Honest Louis, Jenny Argyle, New Haven, New York, Bill Arbroath, Los Angeles, Miss Argyle, Phil Sellaby, Skinny Singleton, Elgar Hay, John Castine, Aunt Agatha, Bud Egan, Daisy Dilley, Dick Sheldon, Sour Scattergood, Big Dick, Brick Bennett, Mac Gregory, Piers Plowman, Sing Loo New!
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THE only sound in the big front room is the faint growling of the bright coal fire as it chars to the ruddiness of a winter apple behind the three black bars of its grate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Esteban, Major Stelly, Miss Hollis, San Francisco, Honest Louis, Jenny Argyle, New Haven, New York, Bill Arbroath, Los Angeles, Miss Argyle, Phil Sellaby, Skinny Singleton, Elgar Hay, John Castine, Aunt Agatha, Bud Egan, Daisy Dilley, Dick Sheldon, Sour Scattergood, Big Dick, Brick Bennett, Mac Gregory, Piers Plowman, Sing Loo New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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