The Roving Critic
by Van Doren, Carl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.. 262, [2] p. These essays, sketches, and reviews were reprinted with the permission of the various publishers from The Atlantic Monthly, The Literary Review, the Nation, and The Texas Review. From Wikipedia: "Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 July 18, 1950) was a U.S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren. He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin. He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930. In 1939, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin. Van Doren's study The American Novel, published in 1921, is generally credited with helping to re-establish Herman Melville's critical status as first-rate literary master.."
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71224
- Title
- The Roving Critic
- Author
- Van Doren, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Walt Whitman, Dean Howells, Folk-lore, Paul Bunyan, John Burroughs, Knickerbocker, Melting-Pot, Diplomat, Inishman, Conquerors
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