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Rex Beach (1877–1949)

Auteur van The Spoilers

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Werken van Rex Beach

The Spoilers (1905) 71 exemplaren
The Barrier (1908) 48 exemplaren
The Silver Horde (1909) 47 exemplaren
The Iron Trail (1913) 47 exemplaren
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1911) 36 exemplaren
The Net (1912) 30 exemplaren
Heart of the Sunset (1915) 29 exemplaren
Flowing Gold (1922) 19 exemplaren
Rainbow's End (1916) 19 exemplaren
Pardners (1905) 16 exemplaren
The Auction Block (1914) 14 exemplaren
The Winds of Chance (1918) 13 exemplaren
Son of the Gods (1953) 7 exemplaren
Too Fat to Fight (1919) 5 exemplaren
The World in His Arms 4 exemplaren
Personal exposures 3 exemplaren
The Silver Horde (2007) 3 exemplaren
Valley of thunder (1939) 2 exemplaren
The mating call 2 exemplaren
PADLOCKED (1926) 2 exemplaren
Laughing Bill Hyde 1 exemplaar
The Ne'er Do-Well 1 exemplaar
Wild Pastures 1 exemplaar
Silver Horde 1 exemplaar
Viltur Vegar 1 exemplaar
Varonan aarre 1 exemplaar
North of Fifty-Three (2007) 1 exemplaar
Omnibusbogen — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Jungle Gold 1 exemplaar
Woman in Ambush 1 exemplaar
Spoilers of the North (1907) 1 exemplaar

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The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1982) — Medewerker — 101 exemplaren
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Tales of the Canadian North (1984) — Auteur — 27 exemplaren

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Officiƫle naam
Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Geboortedatum
1877-09-01
Overlijdensdatum
1949-12-07
Graflocatie
Rollins College Winter Park, Orange County, Florida, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Atwood, Michigan, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Sebring, Florida, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
suicide

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Ew. I was expecting something like Captains Courageous - rich man's son, nearly spoiled, is thrown on his own resources and finds out he can actually do things. Trite, but sweet. What I got was a clash of affluenzas. Rich man's son, the Ne'er-Do-Well, is unable to conceive of not winning - not getting what he wants. Being thrown in a tropical jail and beaten doesn't do anything at all about that - after all, he got rescued. He does show a sturdy streak of independence, and gets a job more-or-less on his own merits, and finds a) he can do it and b) it's a good feeling to have something solid to do - so he may be a better man later - but that's not really the story here. His rescuers are a couple of which the woman is the head (not that anyone admits it openly)...and she's the other case of affluenza (well, one of the other cases. Ramon is another...there are a lot, actually. But she's the other major case). I'm not sure what she planned and what actually surprised her, but she decides Our Hero is her One True Love...while he thinks she's a very nice older woman, a good pal. And on the rare occasion when he thinks more, he shuts himself down quickly. Then he goes and falls in love with a Spanish/Hispanic girl (the book is set in Panama, during the building of the Canal), which...OK, a) he knows zilch about her but she's pretty and he wants her (see: affluenza) b) he knows and cares zilch about her culture - he's willing to jump through a few hoops to get her but he doesn't even bother to try to learn Spanish (besides, she speaks good English. So he doesn't _have_ to...). Major complications of assault and death and scandal and...and oh yeah a romantic rival (or two - love quadrangle at least). And then Daddy comes and fixes everything (by running roughshod over rules and customs and...) and they go happily home. I'd say I'd be more interested in the next book, where they get used to married life and working normally - except that would be a lie, I'm not interested in reading about any of these people under any circumstances. Rex Beach goes on my Don't Bother list.… (meer)
 
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Werken
54
Ook door
4
Leden
487
Populariteit
#50,715
Waardering
½ 3.6
Besprekingen
2
ISBNs
240
Talen
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