GREAT NOVELISTS OF CENTURY
| French Jury Selects Katherine Mansfield j (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” was placed ninth in the list of greatest foreign novels between 1850 and 1950, compiled by a Frencn literary jury, which included Francois Mauriac and Andre Mauro’s. The order was: Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.” Tolstoy’s “War and Peace." • Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of tha D’Urbervilles.” Dostoievsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger.” Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.” Jens Peter Jacobson's “Neils Lynhe.’* Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party.” Ernest Hemingway’s “Farewell to Arms.” Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim.” Anton Chekov’s “Short Stories.” The 12 books in tlv list will be printed in special editions by the National Printing Office.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27705, 8 July 1955, Page 11
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