Joseph Hergesheimer (1880–1954)
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Hugh Walpole, an appreciation 3 Exemplare
The Presbyterian Child 3 Exemplare
San Cristóbal de la Habana 2 Exemplare
Beyond the Bridge 1 Exemplar
TRIALL BY ARMES. 1 Exemplar
Berlin 1 Exemplar
Sheridan 1 Exemplar
Tampico : romanzo 1 Exemplar
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Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1927) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume II, Number 4 (January, 1922) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1880-02-15
- Todestag
- 1954-04-25
- Begräbnisort
- Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sterbeort
- Sea Isle City, New Jersey, USA
- Berufe
- novelist
short-story writer
biographer - Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1920)
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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.
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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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.… (mehr)