Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)
Auteur de The Story of a Bad Boy
A propos de l'auteur
A native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Thomas Bailey Aldrich lived during a time of great change in American literature. His literary conservatism and his resistance to the harsher outlooks of realism in part account for the neglect of him today. Nevertheless, his poetry and fiction were popular afficher plus during his day, and he was a conscientious craftsman. At 16 he went to work in his uncle's New York countinghouse, but he spent his free time reading and writing poetry. His first published works, the sentimental "Ballad of Babie Bell" and The Bells (1855), a volume of verse, brought him immediate fame. He then devoted himself to literature. He became the editor of the weekly magazine, Every Saturday, and eventually of the prestigious Atlantic Monthly from 1881 to 1890. His mature lyrics were less sentimental than his early work, though he continued to follow the classical conventions of romantic poetry. His best short stories, particularly those collected in Marjorie Daw and Other Stories (1873) and Two Bites at a Cherry, with Other Tales (1894), show his use of regional local color, but his romantic plots rely on humor rather than realism for their appeal. Aldrich's first novel, The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), was unique in its depiction not of a "bad boy" but of a "natural boy," a type that anticipated Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. Aldrich's other novels, although popular, were not as successful. Even as he foresaw the change in literary taste that would doom his own reputation, he remained steadfast in preferring the pleasant to the realistic, the conventional to the modern. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Thomas Bailey Aldrich at the age of 32
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Œuvres de Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Young Folks' Library 05: A Book of Famous Myths and Legends (1902) — Directeur de publication — 96 exemplaires
Young Folks' Library 09: A Book of Famous Explorers (1902) — Directeur de publication — 93 exemplaires
Young Folks' Library 11: Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky (1902) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
The Story of a Cat (1879) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Traducteur, quelques éditions — 6 exemplaires
Friar Jerome's beautiful book 5 exemplaires
Cloth of gold, and other poems 3 exemplaires
Prudence Palfrey: A Novel 3 exemplaires
The Queen of Sheba 3 exemplaires
Flower and Thorn 2 exemplaires
The Second Son 2 exemplaires
From Ponkapog to Pesth 2 exemplaires
A Woman Alone With Her Soul [short story] 1 exemplaire
Two bites at a cherry 1894 [Leather Bound] 1 exemplaire
Young Folks Library, the Merry Maker 1 exemplaire
Young folks' Library: Tales of Fantasy, Stories of School and College Days, A Book of Famous Myths & Legends, The… (1943) 1 exemplaire
A HIstória de Um Rapaz Mau 1 exemplaire
Hasheesh [Poems (1863)] 1 exemplaire
Young Folks Library: Story Teller 1 exemplaire
"Nocturne" 1 exemplaire
"Lullaby" 1 exemplaire
Mercedes, and later lyrics 1 exemplaire
The Ballad of Babie Bell and The Steeple of St. Ayne 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The New Junior Classics Volume 06: Stories About Boys and Girls (1938) — Contributeur — 188 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000) — Contributeur — 120 exemplaires
Civil War Memories: Nineteen Stories of Battle, Bravery, Love, and Tragedy (2000) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America (2003) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
The Forgotten Classics of Mystery, Volume II: An Omnibus of American Mysteries (1959) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Representative American Short Stories — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1836-11-11
- Date de décès
- 1907-03-19
- Lieu de sépulture
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA - Professions
- editor
poet
fiction writer
critic - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1898)
Atlantic Monthly
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 71
- Aussi par
- 27
- Membres
- 818
- Popularité
- #31,176
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 150
- Langues
- 2