Philip Van Doren Stern (1900–1984)
Autor de The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
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Obras de Philip Van Doren Stern
The pocket week-end book 3 copias
Evil is My Love 2 copias
The thing in the brook 1 copia
Lola: A Love Story 1 copia
The Thousand-Mile War 1 copia
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The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 67 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Stern, Philip Van Doren
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1900-09-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1984-01-29
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Sarasota, Florida, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
New Jersey, USA - Educación
- Rutgers University
- Ocupaciones
- historian
novelist
Miembros
Reseñas
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También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 50
- También por
- 10
- Miembros
- 2,428
- Popularidad
- #10,567
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 33
- ISBNs
- 72
- Idiomas
- 6
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.… (más)