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Philip Van Doren Stern (1900–1984)

Autor von The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

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Werke von Philip Van Doren Stern

The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (1945) — Herausgeber — 976 Exemplare
Secret Missions of the Civil War (1959) 360 Exemplare
The Greatest Gift (1943) 188 Exemplare
The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories (1943) — Herausgeber — 145 Exemplare
The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1939) 68 Exemplare
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (1945) — Herausgeber — 55 Exemplare
The Pocket Reader (1941) 30 Exemplare
Great Ghost Stories (1947) 29 Exemplare
An End to Valor (1958) 24 Exemplare
Prologue to Sumter (1961) 22 Exemplare
The Other Side of the Clock (1968) 18 Exemplare
The Drums of Morning (1942) 16 Exemplare
The Pocket Companion (1942) 12 Exemplare
The Civil War Christmas album (1961) 10 Exemplare
The pocket book of America (1942) 10 Exemplare
The Midnight Reader (1942) 7 Exemplare
The beginnings of art (1973) 5 Exemplare
It Happened One Christmas [1977 TV movie] (1977) — Writer — 3 Exemplare
Evil is My Love 2 Exemplare
Lola: A Love Story 1 Exemplar

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Onkel Toms Hütte (1852) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben; Einführung, einige Ausgaben16,857 Exemplare
It's a Wonderful Life [1946 film] (1946) — Original text — 1,037 Exemplare
Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (1854) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben632 Exemplare
The diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 (1957) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben253 Exemplare
The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (1940) — Herausgeber — 187 Exemplare
Christmas Stars (1992) — Mitwirkender — 96 Exemplare
Great Ghost Stories (1936) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben67 Exemplare
Selected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (1937) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben35 Exemplare

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Now, I'd like to start by saying I am not a very smart person and that might be why I struggled so much with this book. It was... quite a chore for me to read this.

I can't remember where I read it, but I really enjoyed the Tell-Tale Heart so I thought I would enjoy the rest of his stories, as well, but I was so very wrong. I'm not saying they are bad, not at all, but they just aren't for me. To me, these tales were very... dull and drawn out. Most of it went over my head and I found myself zoning out and having to reread several paragraphs multiple times before the words would take.

The strangest part is that this book felt almost supernatural. No matter how many pages I read, it never seemed to get shorter and it felt like it took ages to finish it. But maybe that's just because it was such a struggle to force myself to finish it, I don't know. It just felt like no matter how many pages I turned, it took longer than it should to reach the end.
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AnnoyingTiger888 | 9 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 21, 2024 |
I can’t believe I’d never read the short story that “It’s a Wonderful Life” is based on! Obviously, a lot is different in the movie, but the core theme remains the same. I loved that this edition includes the background of the author coming up with the whole idea in a dream, and the director Frank Capra happening to get a hold of one of 200 copies that was sent out as a Christmas card in 1943. We truly never know how many lives we’ve touched.
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bookworm12 | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 9, 2023 |
Double Review for "Wonderful Memories of It's A Wonderful Life" and "The Greatest Gift."

A fan of this heartwarming movie that only grows into an even bigger worldwide love every year, I picked up the first as an audio to listen to during this season. It gave me all the information about it that I never knew about. How the first story was written as a Christmas Card, the process of it becoming a movie, behind the scene adorable pieces, and how RKO made the snow we use in movies still today.

During the middle of this listen, I ordered my own copy of "The Greatest Gift," the short story the movie is based on. It did not disappoint and warmed my heart with the reading of its genesis, too.
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wanderlustlover | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 27, 2022 |
Husband, father, and small-town bank clerk George Pratt feels that while other men out there are leading exciting lives, his own work is dull and his life is pretty useless. Just when he's contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve, a mysterious stranger comes and stops George in The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale by Philip Van Doren Stern.

It's been years now since I first heard of this short story upon which the classic movie It's a Wonderful Life is based. I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me before to actually look up and read this original tale. But I do know it can be something of a letdown when you've got a beloved story embedded in your soul and then you check out another version of it, and it isn't the same.

Well. Although I can say that I do prefer the fuller development of the plot and characters in the classic motion picture that's one of my all-time favorite films, I'm pleased that I didn't picture George Pratt here as George Bailey, or the mysterious stranger as Clarence Odbody, George Bailey's guardian angel. For the most part, I enjoyed this short fantasy fiction tale for what it is: a short fantasy fiction tale. Not just a precursor to a movie.

And what George Pratt learns about the life he's been given is truly an uplifting and timeless message.
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NadineC.Keels | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 13, 2022 |

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