Contents: IntroductionPlot Summary Characters Themes Style Critical Overview Criticism Further Reading |
Sources
Benét, Stephen Vincent, "The Devil and Daniel Webster," in Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Vol. 2, Farrar & Rinehart, 1942, pp. 33, 42-43; originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, October 24, 1936.
――――――, "Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates," in Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Vol. 2, Farrar & Rinehart, 1942, pp. 418-20; originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, December 24, 1938.
――――――, "An End to Dreams," in First-Prize Stories, 1919 – 1960, Hanover House, 1960, pp. 224-25, 228, 229-33; originally published in Pictorial Review, February 1932.
――――――, "Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer," in Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Vol. 2, Farrar & Rinehart, 1942, pp. 90-91, 92-97, 108; originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1937.
Bigelow, Gordon, Review of Stephen Vincent Benét: The Life and Times of an American Man of Letters, 1898 – 1943, in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 75, No. 1, January 1960, pp. 60-62.
Combs, Robert, "Waking from Nightmares: Stephen Vincent Benét's Faustian America," in Stephen Vincent Benét: Essays on His Life and Work, edited by David Garrett Izzo and Lincoln Konkle, McFarland, 2003, p. 163.
Davenport, Basil, "Introduction," in Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Holt, 1966, pp. iv-xii.
Duffus, R. L., "A Benét Anthology, and Three Novels," in the New York Times, November 28, 1943, p. 6.
Hemingway, Ernest, epigraph, in The Sun Also Rises, Scribner, 1926.
Krutch, Joseph Wood, "Stephen V. Benét and the American Past," in New York Herald Tribune Books, June 21, 1942, p. 1.
Norris, Margot, "Modernist Eruptions," in The Columbia History of the American Novel, edited by Emory Elliot, Columbia University Press, 1991, pp. 311-30.
Roache, Joel, "Stephen Vincent Benét," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 102, American Short-Story Writers, 1910 – 1945, Second Series, edited by Bobby Ellen Kimbel, Gale Research, 1991, pp. 11-19.
Webster, David H., Review, in College Composition and Communication, Vol. 12, No. 2, May 1961, p. 125.
Wells, Henry W., "Stephen Vincent Benét," in College English, Vol. 5, No. 1, October 1943, pp. 8-13.
