All the Brothers Were Valiant (novel)

All the Brothers Were Valiant is a story by Ben Ames Williams. It was published in the 1919 April and May issues of Everybody's Magazine with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth;[1][2] a hardcover edition followed in May with jacket art, front and rear, also by Wyeth.[3] It was Williams's first published novel, although he had previously written many short stories for magazines.[4][5] It has been adapted to film three times, all by MGM: All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923, now lost), Across to Singapore (1928) and All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953). Polar explorer Richard E. Byrd carried a copy on his 1933-1935 solo journey to Antarctica; he wrote in his journal that he was challenged reading it due to eye problems caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from his stove.[6]

All the Brothers Were Valiant
AuthorBen Ames Williams
GenreNovel
PublisherThe Macmillan Company
Publication date
1919
Publication placeUnited States
OCLC418497

Editions

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  • Williams, Ben Ames (1919). All the Brothers Were Valiant (First ed.). New York: The Macmillan Company. pp. [2], 204, [2] p. (last 2 p. blank).
  • Subsequent re-impressions include Grosset & Dunlap (New York, 1919), E.P. Dutton (New York, 1919) and the first U.K edition by Mills & Boon (London, 1920).

References

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  1. ^ Ben Ames Williams (April 1919). "All the Brothers Were Valiant Part I". Everybody's Magazine.
  2. ^ Ben Ames Williams (May 1919). "All the Brothers Were Valiant Part II". Everybody's Magazine.
  3. ^ Ben Ames Williams (May 1919). All the Brothers Were Valiant. New York: The Macmillan Company.
  4. ^ Philip Stevick (1991). "Ben Ames Williams". In Bobby Ellen Kimbel (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography. American Short-Story Writers, 1910-1945. Second Series. Vol. 102. Detroit, MI: Gale. p. 358-365. ISBN 978-0-8103-4582-9.
  5. ^ Lloyd, James B (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 467–469.
  6. ^ Richard E. Byrd (1938). Alone. New York: G. P. Putnum. p. 190.. Byrd had eye problems and headaches nearly the entire trip which he attributed to a gasoline stove improperly ventilated.
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