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1varielle
Bearbeitet: Dez. 19, 2007, 2:51 pm

US Fiction

1. Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen 59 copies on LT

2. As the Earth Turns, Gladys Hasty Carroll 7 copies

3. Ann Vickers, Sinclair Lewis 29 copies

4. Magnificent Obsession, Lloyd C. Douglas 94 copies

5. One More River, John Galsworthy 10 copies

6. Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Lloyd C. Douglas 14 copies

7. The Master of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche 19 copies

8. Miss Bishop, Bess Streeter Aldrich 8 copies

9. The Farm, Louis Bromfield 14 copies

10. Little Man, What Now?, Hans Fallada 43 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin 3 copies

2. Marie Antoinette: The portrait of an Average Woman, Stefan Zweig 103 copies

3. Memoirs of a British Agent , R. H. Bruce Lockhart 50 copies

4. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink 7 copies

5. The House of Exile, Nora Waln 19 copies

6. Van Loon's Geography: The Story of the World We live in, Hendrik Willem Van Loon 54 copies

7. Looking Forward, Franklin D. Roosevelt 2 copies

8. Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933, Ely Culbertson 0 copies

9. The Arches of the Years, Halliday Sutherland 2 copies

10. The March of Democracy, Vol. II, James Truslow Adams 12 copies Corrected per #3 below.

I can't find the right touchstone for The Farm.

I think we magnificently obsessed in another year.

2marise
Dez. 19, 2007, 11:03 am

The Farm is on my TBR shelf. I also have 3, 4, and 5 on the fiction list. Lloyd C. Douglas has two on this list, the public must have been magnificently obsessed with his books! ;)

3DromJohn
Bearbeitet: Dez. 19, 2007, 3:34 pm

I'm one of the 5 with volume II of The March of Democracy.
There's a volume Two to combine once combine works again, and there're 6 copies of the set.
That bumps the total up to 12 copies.

4vpfluke
Dez. 19, 2007, 4:20 pm

I remember looking at Van Loon's Geography as a young kid, which my mother undoubtedly owned as a young adult. Haven't seen it in decades.

5vpfluke
Dez. 19, 2007, 4:35 pm

I was a little curious about Walter Pitkin. It turns out he just died this year at the age of 94 in Weston, CT. Here is the link to his obituary: http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/weston-obits/19941.shtml

6varielle
Dez. 21, 2007, 9:09 am

Thanks for the obit. I made a note of it over in the Written in Stone group.

7vpfluke
Dez. 21, 2007, 12:17 pm

I'm wondering if the person who died is the son. I just added the Cleveland Public Library to my works page option search, and they listed an earlier date for him, as well as a later date. So, varielle, don't go to far with my information. I don't have time right now to do the better research. Note, LOC is a difficult search because they don't have an obvious option to do an alphabetic search seriatum, just keyword.

Number of titles:
Pitkin, Walter B., 1878-1953. 1
Pitkin, Walter B. (Walter Broughton), 1878-1953. 26
Pitkin, Walter Boughton, 1913- 2

8Pawcatuck
Apr. 24, 2008, 11:13 pm

Ann Vickers for the fiction. One of his better books, as I remember.

100,000,000 Guinea Pigs was an early version of some of the work that people like Michael Pollan are doing now. Copies were still fairly plentiful when I was a kid; I'm sure I looked at it, but pretty sure I never "read" it.

I never knew that FDR wrote a book!

9rocketjk
Jan. 11, 2010, 3:20 pm

I own Van Loon's Geography but haven't read it yet.

10vpfluke
Jan. 11, 2010, 7:41 pm

I feel compulsed to see how really obscure books are doing in LT. Ely Culbertson now has six owners of his Contract Bridge Blue Book in LT.

112wonderY
Feb. 2, 2010, 1:12 pm

I went through a Lloyd Douglas phase, so I've read both of his titles. He played with the idea of self improvement by taking the New Testament promises to a very concrete level.

12edwinbcn
Jan. 23, 2016, 10:54 am

The arches of the years
Finished reading: 4 January 2016



The Arches of the Years was published in 1932, when its author, Halliday Sutherland was 50 years old. It was a best-seller in 1933. Sutherland was a medical doctor and successful author. In his youth he wrote three books in the field of medicine, about birth control and tuberculosis, culminating in the Tuberculin Handbook, published in 1936. In his later years, the 1930s and 40s he wrote several travelogues, about travels to Spain, Ireland, Lapland and the home countries.

The Arches of the Years is a memoir which describes his youth in rural Scotland at the turn of the century: beautiful descriptions of nature and the people with the nostalgic touch of the glance over the shoulder at a world that no longer existed. The writing style of Sutherland reminds of the novels of Hugh Walpole, that popular author of the Edwardian period. Sutherland describes how as a teenager his was lazy at school and his father sent him to relatives in Spain to prepare for his examinations. These descriptions are colourful and full of Spanish caprice as the young Sutherland struggles to learn his first words in Spanish, a lively stay of three months which created a lifelong interest in Spain and successfully prepared him for his examinations, back in Scotland.

The middle section of The Arches of the Years is dedicated to Sutherland's second, longer stay in Spain, as a young man in his mid-twenties. It describes life in Spain at that time, around 1907, and gives very detailed descriptions of the ceremony, rituals and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. The last part of the book describes the author's time in the navy during the First World War, relating various anecdotes and adventures and dangers of the submarine war, and lifting the veil on a German invasion of Britain in 1917.

Halliday Sutherland is quaintly old-fashioned, and some of his jokes are no longer that funny. Incidentally, The Arches of the Years was published in the same year as Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway, and both books describe the Spanish bullfight traditions in a very similar way; Sutherland as a 25-year old in about 1907 and Hemingway two decades later in 1929, aged 30. Born in 1899, Hemingway was 17 younger than Halliday Sutherland. However, written at about the same time, and published in the same year, 1932, Hemingway's prose has held up much better than Sutherland's.

The Arches of the Years is perhaps still of interest to readers who enjoy the style of Edwardian prose, and might like to read about Spain and bullfighting during that period, and an adventurous episode of the naval experience of the Great War.



13Tess_W
Mrz. 19, 2016, 10:36 pm

#9 The Farm by Louis Bromfield, is a "prequel" to Pleasant Valley, with the former being short stories about conservationist farming. I have had the great pleasure of visiting the Bromfield Farm (Malabar) in Lucas (Mansfield), Ohio. It is quite interesting and is the place where Bogey and Bacall were married.

142wonderY
Mrz. 20, 2016, 7:58 am

corrected touchstone The Farm. Thanks! Reading broadly in organic farming nowadays.

15vpfluke
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 25, 2016, 12:43 am

Trying for a touchstone for Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen. It works and now has 209 owners. Van Loon's Geography is up to 177. Memoirs of a British Agent has 215. Contract Bridge Book of 1933 actually now has 2 people owning it

16edwinbcn
Apr. 24, 2016, 10:18 am

I have a copy of Anthony Adverse, but am not planning to read it soon.