Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories
Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories
Edmund Wilson felt this collection of twenty-four stories, originally published in 1934, contains some of Walter Edmonds' best work. The Atlantic
Monthly wrote thar "Upstate New York has provided Edmonds with an inexhaustible store of characters one would like co know." A number of the stories were award-winnrng and appeared in such collections as Best Stories of 1929 and The O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories.
"Black Wolf," The End of the Towpath," Death of Red Peril"-these and ochers faithfully depict an era and region for which Edmonds became chief
literary spokesman. Episodic and anecdotal, chey catch in various ways something of the nuances of real life as it was in the days when the Erie Canal
offered a passage west for many travelers and settlers and a livelihood for many more.
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Edmund Wilson felt this collection of twenty-four stories, originally published in 1934, contains some of Walter Edmonds' best work. The Atlantic
Monthly wrote thar "Upstate New York has provided Edmonds with an inexhaustible store of characters one would like co know." A number of the stories were award-winnrng and appeared in such collections as Best Stories of 1929 and The O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories.
"Black Wolf," The End of the Towpath," Death of Red Peril"-these and ochers faithfully depict an era and region for which Edmonds became chief
literary spokesman. Episodic and anecdotal, chey catch in various ways something of the nuances of real life as it was in the days when the Erie Canal
offered a passage west for many travelers and settlers and a livelihood for many more.
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