Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930)
Auteur de The Minute Boys of Lexington
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Please be especially careful about assigning Stratemeyer Syndicate pen names to Edward Stratemeyer personally. The main names he personally wrote as include his own, Arthur M. Winfield, Edna Winfield, and Capt. Ralph Bonehill. Other names are probably more safely ascribed to the Stratemeyer Syndicate since they cannot be attributed to any single person.
For the Rover Boys, Putnam Hall series, etc. please put in the Arthur M. Winfield page
There are separate pages for Captain Ralph Bonehill and Edna Winfield as well. Visit them for more info about those pseudonyms.
Stratemeyer also wrote 11 books under the Alger name (after Alger's death) but do not combine him with Alger.
Stratemeyer also wrote 1 book under the name of Oliver Optic (after Optic's death), but please do not combine him with Optic.
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Séries
Œuvres de Edward Stratemeyer
Reuben Stone's Discovery 4 exemplaires
The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill 3 exemplaires
Boy Nihilist 2 exemplaires
The Surprising Adventures of the Man in the Moon: Showing How, in Company with Santa Claus, Robinson Crusoe, Cinderella… (1903) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
At the Little Brown House 2 exemplaires
The Rover Boys, Vol. 2: The Rover Boys in the Jungle and the Rover Boys out West (2011) 2 exemplaires
The Hardy Boys, Season One 2 exemplaires
The School Days of an American Boy 1 exemplaire
The Wizard of the Sea; or, A Trip Under the Ocean 1 exemplaire
Because of Her Love for Him 1 exemplaire
Love's Maze: Comic Opera in Two Acts 1 exemplaire
The Little Cuban Rebel 1 exemplaire
Holiday Stories for Boys 1 exemplaire
Victor Horton's Idea 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Abbott, Henry
Abbott, Manager Henry
Winfield, Arthur M.
Alger Jr., Horatio
Bonehill, Ralph
Optic, Oliver (tout afficher 9)
Winfield, Edna
Bell, Emerson
Steward, Ray M. - Date de naissance
- 1862-10-04
- Date de décès
- 1930-05-10
- Lieu de sépulture
- Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New Jersey, USA
- Études
- Public School No. 3, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA (high school)
- Professions
- creator of juvenile fiction
- Relations
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer (daughter)
- Courte biographie
- Edward Stratemeyer was a prolific author with about 160 of his stories being published as books. He was also a literary agent and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book packager which produced some 1,400 juvenile series book volumes between 1905 and 1985. When he died in 1930, ownership of his Syndicate passed to his daughters who ran it together for twelve years. After 1942, Harriet S. Adams ran it alone with partners and hired assistants until her own death in 1982.
He is the creator of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, and many other famous children's series. - Notice de désambigüisation
- Please be especially careful about assigning Stratemeyer Syndicate pen names to Edward Stratemeyer personally. The main names he personally wrote as include his own, Arthur M. Winfield, Edna Winfield, and Capt. Ralph Bonehill. Other names are probably more safely ascribed to the Stratemeyer Syndicate since they cannot be attributed to any single person.
For the Rover Boys, Putnam Hall series, etc. please put in the Arthur M. Winfield page
There are separate pages for Captain Ralph Bonehill and Edna Winfield as well. Visit them for more info about those pseudonyms.
Stratemeyer also wrote 11 books under the Alger name (after Alger's death) but do not combine him with Alger.
Stratemeyer also wrote 1 book under the name of Oliver Optic (after Optic's death), but please do not combine him with Optic.
Membres
Critiques
The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill (#2) par Edward Stratemeyer
The second book in a series, The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill is an exciting historical tale for boys and girls which chronicles the events of the American Revolution through the experiences of a young patriot named Roger Morse. Boys and girls who read this story will be entertained by a harmless escape into exciting historical adventure. They will be informed not only of American Revolutionary War history, but also of the importance of such virtues as love of liberty, bravery in the face of tyranny, courage against overwhelming odds, fierce determination and loyalty to country, family and friends. The author's upbeat and light hearted style will delight readers of all ages. This kind of fiction is the best way to foster a more intimate understanding of our American Heritage.… (plus d'informations)
This was the sequel to The Rover Boys at School, the first book in a long series (25 or so titles). I'm not sure why I read it. I guess I had a need to find out what happened next, after I finished up the first book. I think I'm now cured from that sickness and will leave the Rover boys to languish in the obscurity they deserve.
To be fair, the Rover boys series of books are geared toward 11-year old boys. So there's lots of adventure, good guys against bad guys, guns, sailing, fires, storms at sea, etc. Jumping to unmerited conclusions is ok because you can always tell the bad guys by the way they look. The writing is truly bad. What it reminded me of was the stories Penrod was writing. The Penrod books themselves are reasonably good, having been penned by a competent author, Booth Tarkington. But occasionally, we find Penrod, the 11-year-old hero of the books, hiding out in the barn and scribbling some kind of lurid adventure. So, that's kind of what the Rover boys comes out being, a lurid adventure written by an 11-year old. A competent author would do better, but Stratemeyer, the author, was an entrepreneur, not an author. Apparently, he actually wrote the Rover boys books himself. Many of his other series, e.g. the Hardy boys, were farmed out to free-lancers who had little time to polish their works. Even so, it seems to me that the Hardy boys books I've read in the last couple of years, were not nearly so lame as these two Rover boys books I read in the past month.
Still, it could be worse. There was adventure and lots of action, so at least things didn't get boring. Just incongruous and irresponsible.
… (plus d'informations)
To be fair, the Rover boys series of books are geared toward 11-year old boys. So there's lots of adventure, good guys against bad guys, guns, sailing, fires, storms at sea, etc. Jumping to unmerited conclusions is ok because you can always tell the bad guys by the way they look. The writing is truly bad. What it reminded me of was the stories Penrod was writing. The Penrod books themselves are reasonably good, having been penned by a competent author, Booth Tarkington. But occasionally, we find Penrod, the 11-year-old hero of the books, hiding out in the barn and scribbling some kind of lurid adventure. So, that's kind of what the Rover boys comes out being, a lurid adventure written by an 11-year old. A competent author would do better, but Stratemeyer, the author, was an entrepreneur, not an author. Apparently, he actually wrote the Rover boys books himself. Many of his other series, e.g. the Hardy boys, were farmed out to free-lancers who had little time to polish their works. Even so, it seems to me that the Hardy boys books I've read in the last couple of years, were not nearly so lame as these two Rover boys books I read in the past month.
Still, it could be worse. There was adventure and lots of action, so at least things didn't get boring. Just incongruous and irresponsible.
… (plus d'informations)
In reading something about the author of the Hardy Boys series (Lesley something or other, a Canadian), I got interested in Edward Stratemeyer, who masterminded a number of popular youth series, including the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, and the Rover Boys. Well, I'd never read any Rover Boys, which seemed to be Stratemeyer's first series and one he largely penned himself. Many of the others he outlined and then farmed out the actual writing to others, for a fixed price and no royalties. The poor bastard who wrote the Hardy Boys only made about $100 for a volume, which then went on to sell to several generations of boys over several decades.
Anyway, the Rover Boys is short and active. There's always something going on. Lots of youthful hijinx, scary adventures, e.g. being attacked by a rampaging snake, robbed by a hobo, choked on a moving train, etc. There are also lots of moral teachings, so as to instruct boys as to how to grow up to be proper men, lots of foreshadowing, and of course a summary of the story which pitches the next one in the series. Since the book leaves a number of questions up in the air, e.g. will the rich widow be bamboozled into marriage by the malevolent, former schoolmaster, one must, naturally, immediately go out to buy the next adventure in the series. So, perhaps I shall.… (plus d'informations)
Anyway, the Rover Boys is short and active. There's always something going on. Lots of youthful hijinx, scary adventures, e.g. being attacked by a rampaging snake, robbed by a hobo, choked on a moving train, etc. There are also lots of moral teachings, so as to instruct boys as to how to grow up to be proper men, lots of foreshadowing, and of course a summary of the story which pitches the next one in the series. Since the book leaves a number of questions up in the air, e.g. will the rich widow be bamboozled into marriage by the malevolent, former schoolmaster, one must, naturally, immediately go out to buy the next adventure in the series. So, perhaps I shall.… (plus d'informations)
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lgpiper | 2 autres critiques | Jun 21, 2019 |
lgpiper | 2 autres critiques | Jun 21, 2019 | 
An interesting bit of Zeitgeist -- a slice in time, the mores of a not so distant past that seems centuries away from this time. A pretty lame story, by the way.
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- Œuvres
- 149
- Membres
- 1,452
- Popularité
- #17,699
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 356
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
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