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Wilbur Lang Schramm (1907–1987)

Auteur de Adventures in American Literature

33+ oeuvres 598 utilisateurs 4 critiques

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Œuvres de Wilbur Lang Schramm

Adventures in American Literature (1989) — Directeur de publication — 364 exemplaires
Great Short Stories (1900) 40 exemplaires
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Directeur de publication — 28 exemplaires
HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICATION (1973) 7 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1963) — Contributeur — 102 exemplaires
The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Saturday Evening Post Stories: 1942-1945 (1946) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires

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This was a school book from the middle of the last century. I can just imagine some young version of myself sitting in a classroom waiting to be called on to read the next page out loud. I don’t think I would have appreciated it the way I just did reading these fantastic short stories. Kipling’s The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney was a wonderful tale, but even more wonderful were the images and the dialogue. Who would think that a story titled, The Dill Pickle, by Katherine Mansfield would have anything to do with love or be so filled with emotions? Jack London’s, All Gold Canyon, brings out the sweat from the burning sun as well as from the impending doom. Of course, all of the choices are classic examples of writers at the top of their form. Go back to school and learn a thing or two.… (plus d'informations)
 
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drardavis | Oct 28, 2023 |
I saved this because I remember reading some of the texts in this series as a child, though I am not sure I read this one
 
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antiquary | 2 autres critiques | Aug 25, 2011 |
high schoold jr. year text, very useful still to day. Frost, Sandburg, Eliot, Ewards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God), etc.
 
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ffstorer | 2 autres critiques | Feb 13, 2010 |
I was on the textbook committee, and I loved this book. When they sent an extra teacher's edition as a sample, I kept it.
 
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MerryMary | 2 autres critiques | Apr 25, 2007 |

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Œuvres
33
Aussi par
4
Membres
598
Popularité
#42,016
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
4
ISBN
38
Langues
2

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