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Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)

Autor/a de Benjamin Franklin

56+ obres 1,537 Membres 6 Ressenyes

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Obres de Carl Van Doren

Benjamin Franklin (1938) 608 exemplars
The Great Rehearsal (1948) 306 exemplars
Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings (1945) — Editor — 48 exemplars
An Anthology of World Prose (1934) 45 exemplars
James Branch Cabell (1925) 45 exemplars
The American Novel, 1789-1939, (1921) 33 exemplars
An American Omnibus (1933) — Editor; Introducció — 31 exemplars
The Portable Carl van Doren (1945) 20 exemplars
Have you read 100 great books? (1950) 17 exemplars
Americana Esoterica (1927) — Editor — 16 exemplars
Modern American prose (1934) 13 exemplars
American Scriptures (1946) 11 exemplars
The Borzoi reader (1928) 10 exemplars
Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1 (1938) 10 exemplars
The Patriotic Anthology (1941) 10 exemplars
Benjamin Franklin (v. 2) (1938) 7 exemplars
Swift 7 exemplars
The London Omnibus (1932) — Editor — 7 exemplars
Many Minds (1975) 5 exemplars
Alfred A. Knopf - quarter century 1915-1940 (1940) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Tales by Washington Irving (1918) 2 exemplars
The Roving Critic (1923) 2 exemplars
Other provinces (1925) 2 exemplars
Three worlds (1936) 2 exemplars
What is American Literature? (1935) 2 exemplars
Katherine Mansfield Stories (1946) 1 exemplars
Bejamin Franklin 1 exemplars
American Scriptures (2012) 1 exemplars
An Illinois boyhood 1 exemplars
Meet Dr. Franklin 1 exemplars

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The Red Badge of Courage (1894) 11,079 exemplars
The Federalist Papers (1787) — Introducció, algunes edicions9,923 exemplars
The Turn of the Screw (1898) — Introducció, algunes edicions8,061 exemplars
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) — Introducció, algunes edicions7,287 exemplars
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1900) — Prefaci, algunes edicions1,553 exemplars
South Wind (1917) — Pròleg, algunes edicions558 exemplars
Memoirs of a Midget (1921) — Pròleg, algunes edicions315 exemplars
5 Plays: Clouds / Wasps / Birds / Lysistrata / Frogs (1955) — Introducció, algunes edicions257 exemplars
The Portable Swift (1948) — Editor, algunes edicions202 exemplars
Literary history of the United States (1946) — Col·laborador — 190 exemplars
Atheism: A Reader (2000) — Col·laborador — 181 exemplars
Gulliver's Travels / A Tale of a Tub / The Battle of the Books (1704) — Introducció, algunes edicions111 exemplars
Twelve Lives (1950) — Introducció, algunes edicions75 exemplars
Rifleman Dodd and The Gun: Two Novels of the Peninsular Wars (1932) — Pròleg, algunes edicions47 exemplars
Whither Mankind (1928) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Selections from the writings of Thomas Paine (1900) — Editor, algunes edicions24 exemplars
I hear America singing;: An anthology of folk poetry, (1937)algunes edicions; Introducció, algunes edicions15 exemplars
The Three Readers (1943) — Editor, algunes edicions5 exemplars
People in Fact and Fiction (1957) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Hamlin Garland : a son of the middle border (1940) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Wings, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1932 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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crooked6p | Jun 17, 2019 |
A pretty readable and objective History of Ben Franklin.
 
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K.Nichols | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Oct 14, 2009 |
3312. Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren (read May 20, 2000) This won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and when I noticed it at our public library I thought I would read it. It has aged well, and is very well done. Franklin was a great man and had an interesting life. Of the 83 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for biography I have now read 49. Without concentrating on reading the others I will never get all of them read--and I will not devote all my time to getting them all read.
 
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Schmerguls | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Nov 29, 2007 |
Carl Van Doren does what most of us do who read and admire Cabell: write about Cabell in Cabellian style. The opening gambit shows as much:

"There are more arguments to prove that James Branch Cabell is a legend than to prove that he is a fact."

But Van Doren is no mere epigone. He's gone all the way into literary criticism, and can focus in on the crucial truth:

"Mr. Cabell is the most humorous of mythologists. Out of what might seem pedantry if there were less gusto in it, or ignorance if there were less method, he has inextricably jumbled all the mythologies as well as all the histories and geographies. nor has he hesitated to invent with a large hand. The result is that he crowds his pages with symbols which may be brilliantly suggestive and which may be merely mystification. But Mr. cabell no more minds irritating than he minds mystifying. he works under cove, always by the method of indirection. . . . Allegory lurks where no one has any reason to suspect it; allegory is also sometimes absent from passages wherein by all precedent it ought to be. What reader, in such circumstances, can be quite sure that Mr. Cabell is not having sport with him?"

Exactly. This is a necessary little book for those who love Cabell. And, perhaps, even for those who are offended at being made sport of.
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wirkman | Apr 1, 2007 |

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56
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26
Membres
1,537
Popularitat
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½ 3.6
Ressenyes
6
ISBN
78
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2

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