The Greatest Man in the World
| First published | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
The scrappy and abrasive aviation engineer Jack Smurch achieves a non-stop flight around the world in an old monoplane which has attached strange floating fuel tanks.
Borderline speculative fiction, first published in the New Yorker, February 21, 1931.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 |
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The Fireside Book of Flying Stories | Simon & Schuster | Anthology | 239 |
| January 1968 |
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Stories and Storytellers | Addison-Wesley | Anthology | 195 |
| July 1974 |
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Happy Endings | Bobbs-Merrill Company | Anthology | 1 |
| 1975 |
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Skyriders: Man's Conquest of the Air | Blackie | Anthology | 141 |
| January 1979 |
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The Greatest Man in the World | Perfection Learning | Collection | |
| June 2011 |
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The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories | HarperAudio | Collection | |4 |
| 2016 |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Penguin Books | Collection | 82 |