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Joseph Hergesheimer (1880–1954)

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Verk av Joseph Hergesheimer

Java Head (1919) 35 exemplar
The Three Black Pennys (1917) 20 exemplar
Swords & Roses (1929) 17 exemplar
From an old house (1926) 14 exemplar
Linda Condon (1919) 13 exemplar
The party dress (1930) 13 exemplar
Wild Oranges (1918) 13 exemplar
Balisand (1982) 11 exemplar
Tampico (1926) 11 exemplar
Cytherea (1901) 11 exemplar
Quiet cities (1927) 10 exemplar
The Limestone Tree (1931) 9 exemplar
The Bright Shawl (1922) 8 exemplar
San Cristóbal de la Habana (2012) 8 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 137 exemplar
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 137 exemplar
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship (1913) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor133 exemplar
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Bidragsgivare — 71 exemplar
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
Confederate Battle Stories (Civil War Series) (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Great Short Novels of the World (1927) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Bachelor's Quarters: Stories from Two Worlds (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar

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This was a substandard book, that would not be published in modern times. It is a bit unclear as to why Hergesheimer wrote this book and published it in 1919. Hugh Walpole would live and publish for another 20 years, and most of his work was written after 1920.

Hugh Walpole. An appreciation is only about Walpole's early novels and about his book-length non-fiction study of Joseph Conrad. It provides a sketchy, incomplete description of Walpole's life and then goes on to describe his novels and other works as published prior to 1919.

Hugh Walpole. An appreciation is poorly organised, as descriptions of the same novels is repeated in different places. Descriptions of the novels by Hergesheimer are followed by blurbs as copied from the covers of books or advertising materials. This gives the book a very slap dash impression of being thrown together.

Despite its poor quality as a work of literary criticism, Hergesheimer does seem convinced of the high quality of the work of Walpole, and mainly praises his work.
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edwinbcn | Dec 31, 2022 |
Hergesheimer writes in a style that is now considered overly flowery and complex but in his day would have been more common. I enjoyed the book and found it interesting to see the character development from the viewpoint of an author who was clearly unfamiliar with the setting in which the novel was written, Mexico. It takes some work to get through but was nevertheless an interesting read.
 
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dmbg | Sep 12, 2021 |
Shown in flashback, Charles Abbott, an American, remembers his involvement in the Cuban revolution in the 1890s. The hero is callow and self-important, but Hergesheimer does a good job of evoking the beauties of Havanna and the horrors of the Spanish rule there. There is also a (nonsexual) man/man love story which is interesting.
 
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Bjace | Jul 20, 2013 |

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Verk
34
Även av
22
Medlemmar
243
Popularitet
#93,557
Betyg
½ 3.5
Recensioner
3
ISBN
128

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