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Etat : New. Chase, Sidney M (illustrateur).

Etat : New. Chase, Sidney M (illustrateur).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. mild wear, mild age discoloration to text paper, otherwise a clean, sound copy, 12mo, 352 pages, polychrome frontispiece, green cloth with gilt titles and black and gilt front board device of sailing vessel before a moon. Chase, Sidney M. (illustrateur). …

Etat : Very good. Collection contains 40 complete original short stories (approximately 1130 typewritten pages), 222 pieces of correspondence and a few items of ephemera. Generally very good or better. Our overly long title belabors that this collection has two focii: the short story author Richard M. Hallet and his agent, Ann Watkins. Watkins headed her own agency from 1910 to 1947 and represented authors such as Sinclair Lewis, William Saroyan, Edith Wharton, Roald Dahl, Carson McCullers and Ayn Rand. In 1947, she published an anthology of memorable passages from American fiction and she died in 1967. We learn much about Hallet from a 2022 Saturday Evening Post [SEP] online profile by Frederic B. Hill, who published an anthology of Hallet's stories the same year. Hallet was a native of Bath, Maine who was heading for a law career when SEP purchased one of his stories in 1912 for the equivalent of $7,000 in today's money. According to Hill, "Hallet then proceeded on a life of adventure and writing working in copper mines in Arizona, lumber mills in Canada, and as a maritime officer on warships crossing the Atlantic with soldiers and horses during World War I in the face of German U-boats. All the while, he submitted short stories and an occasional article to the leading magazines of the day, including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Collier's, The Atlantic, and others. He was being published more and more frequently. Hallet, whose literary heroes were Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Willa Cather, first came to national attention in 1916 when his "Making Port" was selected as one of The Best Stories of 1916 by the anthologist Edward J. O'Brien. O'Brien, in fact, termed it the best short story of the year out of 2,500 he reviewed. Like many of his tales, "Making Port" was drawn from Hallet's personal experience about an old salt Hallet encountered during his very first shipboard adventure, a romantic but unlucky seaman who always seemed to choose the wrong ship in a long, Sisyphean struggle to return home to Liverpool. Hallet wrote more than 200 short stories in a long career (65 for the Post), five novels, and an entertaining autobiography, The Rolling World, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1938. Most of his fiction portrayed vivid tales of the sea, often built around shipboard tensions, and tales of Maine and New England and their small-town values and rivalries." Watkins' Letters There are 41 letters from Watkins (approximately 12,000 words). The letters reveal a bright, witty and at times acerbic literary agent who knew her business and worked hard for her clients. In February of 1913 she first wrote to Hallet, "enclosing one of my folders that you may know something of the scope and character of my service, and may I add that successful authors have generously recognized the worth of this service . . ." Just three days later she wrote again ("I suggest that you give me a chance . . ."). Many of Ann's letters lauded Hallet's work, and many made good on her promise to get his stories sold. Within a month of working for the writer, Watkins wrote: "Bearing in mind your wish, if not command, to adhere to the five cent a word rate . . . I trust you will feel that I have protected your interests as fully as it has been possible to do so . . . I think that I can get you a rate bigger than any you have thus received." By January of 1914 Watkins had doubled Hallet's earlier rate; one editor "nearly dropped dead when I sprung ten cents a word on him. But I think I convinced him that thirty or forty thousand words, which is all he could use, might be worth this price." She also noted that she "fixed the rate of ten cents a word as a precedent to govern the price of mss. to be submitted in the future." Watkins was clearly a no-nonsense type of woman; in October 1914 she confided in Hallet that she did not "permit editors to 'dine and wine' me" and boasted of selling two of his stories - "I made them pay four hundred for the story that they had turned down as unavailable at any price (but if you ever let the editor folk down there know of this I will never forgive you.") She also told magazines small fibs about Hallet's productivity to garner interest in the writer "don't you think you ought to get busy and send me some of the best stories you can write?" The agent's letters showed great insight and knowledge, both in the art of writing and the business of publishing. She gave helpful advice, tips and criticism on character and plot development, and frequently described the inner workings of a multitude of magazines and their editors. There was frank information on her services and rates and what Hallet could do to help make her work more beneficial for him. She also defended Hallet when an editor accused him of stealing another writer's plot, calling him "superior from a story-telling and literary viewpoint . . . whose powers of invention are so [much] more original, whose imagination is so much more fluent, whose graphic sense is so much more picturesque . . . it is difficult to believe that a man of Hallet's intelligence could do so idiotic a thing aside [from] the important consideration of morals and ethics." Watkins comforted Hallet through nearly a year of little success, providing updates on which magazines were considering stories, and telling him tactfully but directly about rejections. In February of 1915 she lauded one of his stories as "in my estimation one of the most powerful yarns you have done in fact one of the most remarkable tales of primitive life I think I have ever read. Conrad never did anything better." One week later she described a story as having "two qualities so rare that editors are likely to be afraid of it as they would of the Dodo bird if that creature walked into their sanctum. These qualities are originality and genuine literary value." In March she sent a much longer than usual letter, providing key insight into big name publications, addressing his concerns and li.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. The Lady Aft | Richard Matthews Hallet | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007 | Kessinger Publishing, LLC | EAN 9780548298640 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Chase, Sidney M (illustrateur).…