Louis Bromfield (1896–1956)
Författare till The Rains Came
Om författaren
Foto taget av: Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1933
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)
Serier
Verk av Louis Bromfield
A New Pattern for a Tired World (The Right Wing Individualist Tradition in America) (1954) 8 exemplar
La señora Parkington 6 exemplar
El río salvaje novela 2 exemplar
Sateet tulivat 1 2 exemplar
Parkingtons 2 exemplar
It All Came True [1940 film] — Story — 2 exemplar
La gran pradera 2 exemplar
Nacht in Bombay Roman 1 exemplar
När regnet kom. 2 1 exemplar
Og regnen kom - I 1 exemplar
Traum in Louisiana - bk825 1 exemplar
The World We Live In, Stories 1 exemplar
Moderní hrdina 1 exemplar
sateet tulivat I 1 exemplar
NOVELAS ESCOGIDAS II 1 exemplar
NOVELAS ESCOGIDAS I 1 exemplar
En moderne Helt 1 exemplar
England A Dying Oligarchy 1 exemplar
MissAnnie Spraggs underlige liv og død 1 exemplar
Set of Six Books By Louis Bromfield: A Modern Hero; the Rains Came; the Farm; the Man Who Had Everything; Early Autumn;… (1934) 1 exemplar
A Primer of Conservation 1 exemplar
You Get What You Give: A Collection of Four Novels — Författare — 1 exemplar
The wealth of the soil 1 exemplar
El Dorado 1 exemplar
Blestemul Dragostei — Författare — 1 exemplar
Sateet tulivat 2 1 exemplar
Nature's Bank - The Soil 1 exemplar
Det fortryllede Land 1 exemplar
I GRANDI ROMANZI MRS. PARKINGTON 1 exemplar
niin piti käydä 1 exemplar
Louis Bromfield. Emprise : 'Possession', roman traduit de l'anglais par Geneviève de Genevraye (1949) 1 exemplar
O senhor Smith 1 exemplar
Walt Disney's Vanishing prairie 1 exemplar
Farma 1 exemplar
Mijn Paradijs 1 exemplar
המאזינה : סיפור 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1928) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Furrow's End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories — Inledning; Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Best-in-Books: Band of Angels / Hazel Rides Again / Five Fathers of Pepi / Animals and Other People / John Goffe's… — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Omnibook Magazine (Overseas Edition for Armed Forces) July 1945 — Författare — 1 exemplar
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Bromfield, Louis
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Brumfield, Louis
- Födelsedag
- 1896-12-27
- Avled
- 1956-03-18
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Mansfield, Ohio, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Mansfield, Ohio, USA
Lucas, Ohio, USA - Utbildning
- Cornell University
Columbia University - Yrken
- farmer
ambulance driver (WWI) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1928)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 96
- Även av
- 26
- Medlemmar
- 2,214
- Popularitet
- #11,581
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 43
- ISBN
- 156
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 7
Sometimes Bromfield seems to forget that he’s a wealthy and well-connected man who can afford to do experimental agriculture at a time of food and labour shortages, and sees himself as though he were some kind of peasant revolutionary, so the book can be a bit irritating, but elsewhere it is very interesting to see his way of working, always taking a close look at what might be going on when something they have done on the farm produces a surprisingly good or bad result. It’s not quite rigorous scientific testing, but obviously a worthwhile attempt at bringing scientific methods into everyday work. Bromfield’s key mantra seems to be about alertness to the specific local factors that often mean a textbook technique may not be the most appropriate for the place where you happen to be farming.
I’m not an expert on organic farming, but I found this very interesting, and I enjoyed sharing the great pleasure Bromfield obviously took in doing a good job in a lovely place.… (mer)