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Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011)

Auteur van Sixteen Short Novels

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Werken van Wilfrid Sheed

Sixteen Short Novels (1985) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 174 exemplaren
Clare Boothe Luce (1982) 51 exemplaren
Max Jamison (1970) 49 exemplaren
Essays and Poems (1958) — Redacteur — 45 exemplaren
Essays In Disguise (1990) 41 exemplaren
The Good Word & Other Words (1978) 39 exemplaren
Office Politics (1656) 37 exemplaren
In Love with Daylight (1995) 36 exemplaren
People Will Always Be Kind (1973) 30 exemplaren
Baseball and Lesser Sports (1991) 28 exemplaren
The Boys of Winter: A Novel (1987) 23 exemplaren
Transatlantic Blues (1978) 22 exemplaren
My Life As a Fan (1993) 18 exemplaren
A Middle Class Education (1899) 14 exemplaren
The hack (1963) 13 exemplaren
Conformist (1965) 11 exemplaren
16 Short Novels: 2 (1985) 1 exemplaar

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The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Medewerker — 291 exemplaren
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Excellent novel by an unfairly forgotten author. Anyone who could make office politics at a small literary magazine this engrossing, hilarious, and heartbreaking deserves to be back in print.
 
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giovannigf | Apr 7, 2014 |
I found the incessantly flippant tone of this biography tooth-gratingly twee and very off-putting. It turns out that Wilfrid Sheed is an ex-Catholic, which goes some way towards explaining his patronizing although affectionate attitude, but perhaps the family setting of his childhood in which (according to his description) everyone had to be unrelentingly humourous also contributed.
 
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muumi | Sep 18, 2010 |
Chesterton was once called an "obese mountebank". Obese he certainly was, "mountebank" he wasn't, except in the sense that he knew from long practice and a flair for construction how to hold the reader's attention till the last paragraph, whether in an essay or a novel. This selection of articles and poems retains its interest even though they were written more than 70 years ago, because he knew how to treat serious and perennial topics in a light-hearted way.
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Leden
964
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#26,708
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61
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