Best Selling Books by Hervey Allen

DuBose Heyward (1885 -1940) was an American author best known for his 1924 novel Porgy. This novel was the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess. Heyward worked in real estate and insurance. When he was financially secure he left business to start a writing career. Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country was first published in 1922. The Low Country was originally settled by Frenchman, Spaniards, and Englishman, each leaving their own legends. Heyward describes this volume as poetry rather than history. Poems include Seance at Sunrise, Silences, Presences, The Pirates, The Sewees of Sewee Bay, La Fayette Lands, Legend of Theodosia Burr, The Priest and the Pirate, Palmetto Town, Carolina Spring Song, The First Submarine, The Last Crew, a collection of Negro poems, Cooper River Legends, and more.

Un romanzo intenso che immerge il lettore nell''atmosfera realistica della Guerra di Secessione americana, nota negli Stati Uniti come guerra civile americana, combattuta dal 12 aprile 1861 al 23 giugno 1865 Hervey Allen (Pittsburgh, 8 dicembre 1889 – Florida, 28 dicembre 1949) è stato uno scrittore statunitense. Dopo essersi laureato si recò in Europa, dove combatté nella prima guerra mondiale. Finita la guerra, tornò negli Stati Uniti e si dedicò alla scrittura di romanzi. Pubblicò anche una biografia di Edgar Allan Poe e curò più di un''edizione delle sue opere. Traduzione a cura di Alessandra Scalero

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Correspondence, 1921-49, with William Gerard Chapman, Elizabeth Brown Cutting, Alfred Jackson Hanna, Frank Lester Pleadwell, and others concerns publication of Allen''s works in the North American review, Pleadwell''s writings about Joseph Rodman Drake and Edward Coote Pinkney the sale of second serial rights to stories, and the death of Amy Lowell [23 items. holograph and typescript]--Photographs [n.d.] of Allen [4 items. black & white].

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