Fadiman, Clifton 1904-1999

Overview

Works:	616 works in 1,445 publications in 5 languages and 42,889 library holdings
Genres:	Short stories Science fiction Dictionaries Anecdotes Gothic fiction Horror fiction Biography Juvenile works Literature Essays
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Producer, Performer, Author of introduction, Commentator, Narrator, Host, Speaker, Interviewer, Other, Compiler, Composer, Contributor, Creator, Adapter
Classifications:	Z1035, 808.8

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Clifton Fadiman

When men were the only models we had : my teachers Barzun, Fadiman, and Trilling by Carolyn G Heilbrun( Book )
The wine lover's daughter : a memoir by Anne Fadiman( Book )
The wine lover's daughter : a memoir by Anne Fadiman( Recording )
Clifton Fadiman by Clifton Fadiman( )
To the curious, intelligent reader : remarks by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

Basil Davenport papers by Basil Davenport( )
Stuart Chase papers by Stuart Chase( )
Elinor Wylie collection by Elinor Wylie( Visual )
George Macy papers by George Macy( )
Clifton Fadiman( Visual )
[Three images depicting panel of experts and others on NBC radio program "Information Please"]( Visual )
Correspondence to Philip Allan Friedman by Philip Allan Friedman( )
[Clifton Fadiman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated behind an ABC microphone as a panelist on the quiz program "The Name's the Same"]( Visual )
Annie Nathan Meyer papers by Annie Nathan Meyer( )
Writers' War Board records by Writers' War Board( )
[Clifton Fadiman and Dorothy Stickney] by Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Firm)( Visual )
Bernard De Voto papers by Bernard De Voto( )
Book-of-the-Month Club records by Book-of-the-Month Club( )
by Dan Golenpaul( )
by Ralph Thompson( )

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Most widely held works by Clifton Fadiman

The lifetime reading plan by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

32 editions published between 1960 and 1995 in 5 languages and held by 2,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A reading list of 100 titles that appeared in "This Week" magazine, with commentary on each author and title

The collected writings of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce( Book )

62 editions published between 1946 and 1999 in English and held by 1,969 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ambrose Bierce: portrait of a misanthrope, by Clifton Fadiman.--In the midst of life, tales of soldiers and civilians.--The devil's dictionary.--Can such things be?--Fantastic fables.--The monk and the hangman's daughter.--Negligible tales.--The parenticide club

The short stories of Henry James by Henry James( Book )

36 editions published between 1889 and 1950 in English and held by 1,942 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The world of the short story : a twentieth century collection by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

16 editions published between 1986 and 1990 in English and held by 1,882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains 62 stories from 16 countries written during the 20th century

World poetry : an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time( Book )

9 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 1,771 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many realms of poetry -- poetry of all styles, of all eras, of all tongues: from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and the Pharaoh Akhenaten's "Hymn to the Sun" to the haiku of Basho and the dazzling imagery of Li Po; from Vedic hymns to Icelandic sagas to the "Carmina Burana"; from the magnificence of Homer and Dante to the lyricism of Goethe and Verlaine; from the piercing insights of Rilke and Yeats to the revelatory verse of Emily Dickinson, Garcia Lorca, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and so many more. While World Poetry includes a generous selection of the best English-language verse from Chaucer to the present, it is designed to lay before the reader the best that all the world's cultures have to offer -- more than eighty percent of the book is poetry originally written in languages other than English and translated by some of the finest talents working today, many of them brilliant poets in their own right. This is no mere sampler: In choosing only works of the highest intrinsic quality, the editors have created a book that will surprise knowledgeable readers and lead newcomers to an understanding of the glories of world poetry that is our common heritage

The philosophy of Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche( Book )

17 editions published between 1905 and 1954 in English and held by 1,643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Various pagings."First modern library giant edition 1937." Introduction, by Willard Huntington Wright.--Thus spake Zarathustra, translated by Thomas Common.--Beyond good and evil, translated by Helen Zimmern.--The genealogy of morals, translated by Horace B. Samuel.--Peoples and countries, translated by J. M. Kennedy.--Ecce homo, translated by Clifton P. Fadiman.--The birth of tragedy from the spirit of music, translated by Clifton P. Fadiman

The Little, Brown book of anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

8 editions published between 1974 and 2009 in English and held by 1,540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes source list, bibliography, index of names, and index of subjects. Contains over 4,000 anecdotes about more than 2,000 famous people from around the world, past and present

The World treasury of modern religious thought( Book )

4 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 1,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fantasia mathematica : being a set of stories, together with a group of oddments and diversions, all drawn from the universe of mathematics by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

37 editions published between 1958 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 1,288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Book Description: Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now once again available. Ranging from the poignant to the comical via the simply surreal, these selections include writing by Aldous Huxley, Martin Gardner, H.G. Wells, George Gamow, G.H. Hardy, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others. Humorous, mysterious, and always entertaining, this collection is sure to bring a smile to the faces of mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike

The American treasury, 1455-1955 by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

16 editions published between 1955 and 1995 in English and held by 1,248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject

The World treasury of children's literature( Book )

6 editions published between 1984 and 1985 in English and held by 1,204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A three-volume anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries

The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics by Timothy Ferris( Book )

5 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and held by 1,177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From the Publisher: An astonishing cast of more than ninety renowned writers provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scientific topics of our time-from black holes and galaxies to artificial intelligence and chaos theory. Featuring essays, articles, and poems penned by notables in the worlds of both science and literature, this unique book will delight the science enthusiast and the inquisitive general reader alike

Reading I've liked; a personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing, presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

20 editions published between 1941 and 1965 in English and held by 1,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The world treasury of science fiction( Book )

1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 1,004 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes Vonnegut, Kurt Jr., "Harrison Bergeron"/Campbell, John W. Jr., "Forgetfulness"/Berryman, John, "Special Flight"/Ballard, J.G., "Chronopolis"/Tensei, Kono, "Triceratops"/Sturgeon, Theodore, "The Man Who Lost the Sea"/Armer, Karl Michael, "On the Inside Track"/Davidson, Avram, "The Golem"/Rebetez-Cortes, Rene, "The New Prehistory"/Clarke, Arthur C., "A Meeting with Medusa"/Klein, Gerard, "The Valley of Echoes"/Wolfe, Gene, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus"/Updike, John, "The Chaste Planet"/Henneberg, Nathalie-Charles, "The Blind Pilot"/Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"/Pairpuppets, "Manuel van Loggem"/Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms"/Lem, Stanislaw, "Tale of the Computer that Fought a Dragon"/Heinlein, Robert A., "The Green Hills of Earth"/Sheckley, Robert, "Ghost V"/Varley, John, "The Phantom of Kansas"/Nesvadba, Josef, "Captain Nemo's Last Adventure"/Niven, Larry, "Inconstant Moon"/Pohl, Frederik, "The Gold at the Starbow's End"/Calvino, Italo, "A Sign in Space" "The Spiral"/Asimov Isaac, "The Dead Past"/van Ewyck, Annemarie, "The Lens"/Sturgeon, Theodore, "The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast"/Bradbury, Ray, "Zero Hour"/Le Guin, Ursula K., "Nine Lives"/Burgess, Anthony, "The Muse"/Allen, Steve, "The Public Hating"/Leiber, Fritz, "Poor Superman"/Disch, Thomas M., "Angouleme"/Knight, Damon, "Stranger Station" and more

Party of one : the selected writings of Clifton Fadiman by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

8 editions published in 1955 in English and held by 989 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fifty years; being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

9 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 963 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mathematical magpie : being more stories, mainly transcendental, plus subsets of essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, epigrams, and other prime oddments and diversions, rational or irrational, all derived from the infinite domain of mathematics by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

27 editions published between 1962 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 883 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stories, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, epigrams, and other prime oddments and diversions, all derived from the infinite domain of mathematics

Any number can play by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

11 editions published between 1957 and 1958 in 3 languages and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Britannica : more than two centuries of facts, curiosities, and discoveries from the most distinguished reference work of all time( Book )

6 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 805 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essential to the quirky, these pages chronicle a dizzying journey through history. Part Two reads like a Who's Who on What's What. Titled "Best Foot Forward," it features the Britannica's most brilliant contributors on their subjects of expertise. From Lawrence of Arabia on guerrilla warfare to Irene Castle on ballroom dancing to Carl Sagan on extraterrestrial life and Orville Wright on his brother Wilbur, this collection covers the sublime, the ridiculous, and

The new lifetime reading plan by Clifton Fadiman( Book )

18 editions published between 1981 and 1999 in English and Chinese and held by 780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Works of high regard ranging from ancient writings to modern classics are noted as well as discussions of the writer's work as a whole, critical evaluations of each work, and suggested related readings

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