Philip Van Doren Stern (1900–1984)
Forfatter af The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
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Værker af Philip Van Doren Stern
Travelers in Time: Strange Tales of Man's Journeying into the Past and the Future (1947) 9 eksemplarer
The pocket week-end book 3 eksemplarer
Travelers in Tiime 2 eksemplarer
Evil is My Love 2 eksemplarer
The thing in the brook 1 eksemplar
Lola: A Love Story 1 eksemplar
The Thousand-Mile War 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
No, But I Saw the Movie: The Best Short Stories Ever Made Into Film (1960) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 67 eksemplarer
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- Stern, Philip Van Doren
- Fødselsdato
- 1900-09-10
- Dødsdag
- 1984-01-29
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- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dødssted
- Sarasota, Florida, USA
- Bopæl
- Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
New Jersey, USA - Uddannelse
- Rutgers University
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I can't remember where I read it, but I really enjoyed the Tell-Tale Heart so I thought I would enjoy the rest of his stories, as well, but I was so very wrong. I'm not saying they are bad, not at all, but they just aren't for me. To me, these tales were very... dull and drawn out. Most of it went over my head and I found myself zoning out and having to reread several paragraphs multiple times before the words would take.
The strangest part is that this book felt almost supernatural. No matter how many pages I read, it never seemed to get shorter and it felt like it took ages to finish it. But maybe that's just because it was such a struggle to force myself to finish it, I don't know. It just felt like no matter how many pages I turned, it took longer than it should to reach the end.… (mere)