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-L • Behind him Luther heard the bus as it crossed the railroad tracks, the slight gulp oL the motor as the gears were shifted, then the stuttering mutter of the tires before they bit once more into the smooth macadam road that led into the little Florida town. It was early morning and there...

PREFACE This book contains thirty stories. They are all about the same length and on the same scale. The first was written in 1919 and the last in 1931. Though in early youth I had written a number of short stories, for a long time, twelve or fifteen years at least, occupied with the drama, I...

Preface This book had its origin in an experiment in the writing of literary history, and it was completed under pressure. The experiment was made in response to a challenge, issued by an eastern university a good many years ago, to discover and define in a public lecture the distinctively...

FOREWORD The story of Soviet genetics in the period 1937-1964 is, perhaps, the most bizarre chapter in the history of modem science. In a society devoted to the betterment of the lot of peasants and workers, an illiterate and fanatical charlatan was allowed absolute dictatorship and control over...