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Bennett Cerf (1898–1971)

Forfatter af The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

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Bennett Cerf was born in 1898, in Manhattan. He was educated at Columbia University. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Cerf died in vis mere 1971. vis mindre
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Værker af Bennett Cerf

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (1945) — Redaktør; Introduktion — 605 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles (1960) 313 eksemplarer
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Redaktør — 284 eksemplarer
More Riddles (1961) 193 eksemplarer
Sixteen Famous American Plays (1777) — Redaktør — 185 eksemplarer
Great Modern Short Stories (1900) 178 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf’s Book of Laughs (1959) 166 eksemplarer
Try and Stop Me (1944) 149 eksemplarer
Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1933) — Redaktør — 141 eksemplarer
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Redaktør — 137 eksemplarer
Famous Ghost Stories (1944) — Redaktør — 134 eksemplarer
Sixteen Famous British Plays (1942) — Redaktør — 112 eksemplarer
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Redaktør; Forord, nogle udgaver110 eksemplarer
The Arabian Nights (Modern Library) (1932) 103 eksemplarer
Riddles and More Riddles! (1960) 103 eksemplarer
The Life of the Party (1956) 85 eksemplarer
Sixteen Famous European Plays (1941) 85 eksemplarer
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Redaktør — 71 eksemplarer
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Redaktør — 66 eksemplarer
Great German Short Novels and Stories (1933) — Redaktør — 59 eksemplarer
Four Contemporary American Plays (1961) — Redaktør — 51 eksemplarer
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Redaktør — 51 eksemplarer
The Laugh's on Me (1959) 47 eksemplarer
An Anthology of Famous British Stories (1952) — Redaktør — 46 eksemplarer
Plays of Our Time (1967) — Redaktør — 43 eksemplarer
Six American Plays for Today (1961) 43 eksemplarer
Three famous murder novels (1941) — Introduktion — 43 eksemplarer
Laugh Day (1965) 42 eksemplarer
Stories Selected from The Unexpected (1948) — Redaktør — 39 eksemplarer
Good for a Laugh (1952) 39 eksemplarer
Shake Well Before Using (1948) 32 eksemplarer
Laughter Incorporated (1950) 29 eksemplarer
Riddle De-Dee (1962) 25 eksemplarer
Anything for a Laugh (1946) 23 eksemplarer
S. R. O. : The Most Successful Plays of the American Stage (1934) — Redaktør — 21 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's Houseful of Laughter (1963) — Redaktør — 18 eksemplarer
Silliest Pop-Up Riddles (1966) 18 eksemplarer
The Sound of Laughter (1970) 18 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's Take Along Treasury (1963) 17 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's Pop-Up Riddle Book (1965) 16 eksemplarer
The Pocket Book of War Humor (1942) 16 eksemplarer
Pocket Book of Modern American Plays (1942) — Redaktør — 15 eksemplarer
Modern American Short Stories (1945) — Redaktør — 15 eksemplarer
Stories to Make You Feel Better (1972) 14 eksemplarer
The Pocket Book of Cartoons (1943) — Redaktør — 13 eksemplarer
Fifteen Famous European Plays (1942) — Redaktør — 10 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's Pop-Up Limericks (1967) 7 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's best jokes (1959) 4 eksemplarer
The Laugh Round-Up 4 eksemplarer
Little Riddles 2 (1984) 4 eksemplarer
Little Riddles 1 (1984) 3 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's new book of jokes (1958) 3 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's Little Riddle Book (1964) 3 eksemplarer
Bennett Cerf's New Laughs (1961) 2 eksemplarer
Book of Animal Riddles 2 eksemplarer
good for a laugh 1 eksemplar
Little Riddles 4 (Bk. 4) (1984) 1 eksemplar
Riddles 1 eksemplar
try and stop me 1 eksemplar
Famous Ghost Stories (1946) 1 eksemplar
Laugh's on Me. The 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Hvem dræbte? (1926) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver9,947 eksemplarer
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (2001) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver1,783 eksemplarer
The Arabian Nights, Volume 1 (1991) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver672 eksemplarer
Fun Fare: A Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor (1948) — Bidragyder — 106 eksemplarer
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Bathroom Reader (1946) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer

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An Anthology, carefully containing all the big sellers of the previous decades and ignoring any interesting asides.
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Markeret
DinadansFriend | 1 anden anmeldelse | Feb 3, 2024 |
Amusing stories, though I believe my grandparents found it much more amusing than I did. A lot of the reference/ jokes to do with spouses was very much of the "I hate my wife, lol" sorry if humour that I think was very popular as a trope among boomers but that I personally find quite cringe. Still, if you can firmly keep this book in the context of its own tone and culture, it has many funny moments
 
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LadyLast | 2 andre anmeldelser | Oct 11, 2023 |
Mr Cerf was a popular humour writer of the 1950's and early 1960's. I wanted to amuse myself, and to learn what was considered funny inmain stream america.
 
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DinadansFriend | 1 anden anmeldelse | Oct 4, 2023 |

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Værker
100
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Medlemmer
5,162
Popularitet
#4,820
Vurdering
4.0
Anmeldelser
47
ISBN
93
Sprog
4
Udvalgt
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