Joseph Hergesheimer (1880–1954)
Autor de Java Head
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Robert H. Davis
Obras de Joseph Hergesheimer
Hugh Walpole, an appreciation 3 copias
The Presbyterian Child 3 copias
San Cristóbal de la Habana 2 copias
Beyond the Bridge 1 copia
TRIALL BY ARMES. 1 copia
Berlin 1 copia
Sheridan 1 copia
Tampico : romanzo 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1927) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume II, Number 4 (January, 1922) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1880-02-15
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1954-04-25
- Lugar de sepultura
- Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Sea Isle City, New Jersey, USA
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer
biographer - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1920)
Miembros
Reseñas
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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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 34
- También por
- 22
- Miembros
- 244
- Popularidad
- #93,239
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 128
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.… (más)