Conrad Richter | Författare

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Conrad Richter was born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania on October 13, 1890. Richter started a small publishing business and wrote magazine fiction and nonfiction books on scientific philosophy. Conrad Richter won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, "The Town," in 1951. The book was the third in what visa mer became known as Richter's Ohio Trilogy. These books were later published in one volume entitled, The Awakening Land: The Trees, The Fields, The Town. The books followed the life of Sayward Luckett Wheeler who was widely considered one of the most sensitively drawn pioneer women in fiction. The trilogy describes her participation in the gradual replacement of the gloomy and dangerous Ohio forest wilderness with new farming communities and a thriving town. Although Richter published more than 20 other novels and collections of short stories, most of which featured pioneers battling their environment, and some of which won their own awards, he is still best known for his Ohio Trilogy. Richter has written many other books including "Early Americana," a collection of short stories, "The Sea of Grass," a book about crooked politicians and cattlemen, and "The Light in the Forest," a book about the kidnapping of a white boy by Native Americans. He also won a National Book Award for "The Waters of Kronos" in 1961. "The Sea of Grass," was also nominated for the National Book Award in 1937. Conrad Richter died in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on October 30, 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnen: Conrad Richter, Conard Richter

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Light in the Forest / Country of Strangers

Awakening Land Trilogy

Verk av Conrad Richter

Populära Nyliga

The Light in the Forest (1953) 2,199 exemplar

The Trees (1940) 591 exemplar

The Town (1950) 370 exemplar

The Fields (1946) 281 exemplar

The Sea of Grass (1937) 277 exemplar

The awakening land: I. The trees; II. The fields; III. The town (1940) 98 exemplar

The Waters of Kronos (1960) 94 exemplar

A Country of Strangers (1966) 62 exemplar

The Lady (1708) 50 exemplar

A Simple Honorable Man (1962) 42 exemplar

The Free Man (1998) 26 exemplar

The Aristocrat (1968) 23 exemplar

The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories (1978) 21 exemplar

Tacey Cromwell (1942) 20 exemplar

Over the Blue Mountain (1967) 18 exemplar

Always young and fair (1946) 13 exemplar

The Grandfathers (1964) 13 exemplar

Happy Land [and] Tacey Cromwell (1942) 10 exemplar

Early Americana and other stories (1936) 9 exemplar

Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors (2015) 8 exemplar

Los Premios Pulitzer de novela (II) (1964) 7 exemplar

The mountain on the desert; a philosophical journey (1955) 6 exemplar

"Sinister Journey" (in SEP Reader) 2 exemplar

The Head of His House (2010) 2 exemplar

Das Mädchen Sayward (1948) 2 exemplar

Doctor Hanray's Second Chance [short fiction] 2 exemplar

The Toad Man [Mason Bell] 1 exemplar

Letteratura Americana - Conrad Richter - Mare D'Erba 1941 Collana Medusa N (1941) 1 exemplar

Signed by Conrad Richter LIGHT IN THE FOREST Knopf, 1953 First Edition 1 exemplar

A lagrima final (Seleções - The Lady) 1 exemplar

Monster of the Dark Places 1 exemplar

The Light in the Forest (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Richter, Conrad(September 20, 2005)… 1 exemplar

Rare Conrad Richter / The Waters of Kronos Signed 1st Edition 1960 [Hardcover] Richter, Conrad 1 exemplar

Typewritten letter signed by Conrad Richter 1 exemplar

TRACEY CROMWELL 1 exemplar

Gli alberi, i campi, la città 1 exemplar

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Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 181 exemplar

Stories to Remember, Volume II (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 126 exemplar

The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar

More Stories to Remember, Volume I (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 84 exemplar

Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1971 v03 (1971) 42 exemplar

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar

Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1957 v03 (1957) 26 exemplar

Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of GHOST STORIES Magazine (2000) — Författare, vissa utgåvor — 12 exemplar

Great Western short stories (1777) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar

Great Stories from the Saturday Evening Post (1947) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar

Reader's Digest Condensed Books (The Lady / The Scapegoat / My Early Life / Onions in the Stew / Boon Island) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar

The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1948 (1948) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar

The Saturday Evening Post Stories: 1942-1945 (1946) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar

The Undying Past (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar

The Bedside Bonanza (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar

MAR DE HIERBA. CHACAL. MUJER SOLITARIA. LOS DURRELL EN CORFU (Biblioteca De Selecciones)1972 (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1957 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

Readers Digest Condensed Books: A Falcon for a Queen • Event 1000 • The Waltz Kings • The Sea of Grass • The… (1973) 1 exemplar

Reader's Digest Condensed Books; Summer 1957, Volume 30: The Lady • A Houseful of Love • The Three Faces of Eve •… (1957) 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn: Richter, Conrad
Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Richter, Conrad Michael
Födelsedag: 1890-10-13
Avled: 1968-10-30
Kön: male
Nationalitet: USA
Födelseort: Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, USA
Dödsort: Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA
Bostadsorter: Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, USA (birth)
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA (death)
Yrken: journalist
novelist
short-story writer
Relationer: Richter, Harvena (daughter)
Organisationer: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1961)
Priser och utmärkelser: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1959)
Kort biografi: Conrad Richter wrote with great sensitivity and lyricism of life along the American frontier, including the native Americans.

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The Light in the Forest av Conrad Richter

Neither people group understood the other. Both had good and evil.

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KeithK999 | 24 andra recensioner | Dec 3, 2023 |

The Light in the Forest av Conrad Richter

A boy raised by Indians tries to fit in to white colony society.

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kslade | 24 andra recensioner | Jul 11, 2023 |

Light in the Forest av Conrad Richter

Felt a bit perfunctory. And perhaps a bit fetishistic.

I know it was written with an anti-racist purpose, but I'm not sure it achieved it.

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3Oranges | 24 andra recensioner | Jun 24, 2023 |

A Country of Strangers av Conrad Richter

I remember reading The Light in the Forest back in middle school. I remember vaguely the teacher saying there was another book Richter wrote that was pseudo sequel, and for some reason, years later I decided to look it up.

This book tells the story of another young person who was adopted by the Indians, and is forced to return to the white world. Unlike True Son in The Light in the Forest, Stone Girl is not welcomed by her white family, who do not believe her to be the missing Mary Stanton thanks to an impostor taking her place.

This duplicity is a secondary plot that is unresolved. The book instead focuses on Stone Girl's existence straddling two worlds. She's too Indian to be white, and after spending time with her white family, becomes too white to be accepted by her old Indian tribe.

This was a very quick read, and an interesting one but, like The Light in the Forest, is ultimately unsatisfying in the end - the main character learns s/he does not fit into either society.… (mer)

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wisemetis | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 27, 2022 |

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