Kazin, Alfred 1915-1998

Overview

Works:	377 works in 1,380 publications in 6 languages and 36,540 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction History Criticism, interpretation, etc Political fiction Action and adventure fiction Juvenile works Interviews Biography Bildungsromans Humorous fiction
Subject Headings:	Jews
Roles:	Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Performer, Contributor, Speaker, pre, Other, wpr, Writer of accompanying material, Correspondent
Classifications:	PS1305, 813.4

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Alfred Kazin

Starting out in the thirties by Alfred Kazin( Book )
New York Jew by Alfred Kazin( Book )
A walker in the city by Alfred Kazin( Book )
Writing was everything by Alfred Kazin( Book )
Alfred Kazin : a biography by Richard M Cook( Book )

Alfred Kazin's America : critical and personal writings by Alfred Kazin( Book )
A lifetime burning in every moment : from the Journals of Alfred Kazin by Alfred Kazin( Book )
Alfred Kazin's journals by Alfred Kazin( Book )
Our New York by Alfred Kazin( Book )
What I saw at the fair by Ann Birstein( Book )
From immigrant Brownsville to the world of the New York intellectual : a study of Alfred Kazin's autobiographies by Ludger Brinker( )
New York Jew by Alfred Kazin( Recording )
A walker in the city by Alfred Kazin( Recording )
On native grounds by Alfred Kazin( Recording )
[Alfred Kazin and David Finn]( Visual )
Historical humanism in the work of two New York intellectuals : Irving Howe and Alfred Kazin by Eric Glaberson( )
"The Messiah is Uptown" : Jewish literary practice in postwar America by Julian Levinson( )
Albrecht collection II by William Price Albrecht( )
On Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) by Andrew Delbanco( )
American writers( )

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Most widely held works by Alfred Kazin

On native grounds : an interpretation of modern American prose literature by Alfred Kazin( Book )

111 editions published between 1942 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 2,910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kazin argues that America's principal literary figures from the Civil War to World War II were bound directly to it's social development

Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer by Alfred Kazin( Book )

59 editions published between 1971 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 2,376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines American fiction from the 1940's to the 1970's

An American procession by Alfred Kazin( Book )

41 editions published between 1984 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 2,169 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A study of the major American writers from the 1830's to the 1930's

The portable Blake by William Blake( Book )

46 editions published between 1946 and 1987 in English and German and held by 1,921 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of the most notable writings of William Blake

Contemporaries. [Essays by Alfred Kazin( Book )

35 editions published between 1924 and 1963 in English and held by 1,763 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes essays on Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, John P. Marquand, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, John O'Hara, Nelson Algren, James Agee, Lawrence Durrell, Dylan Thomas, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, J.F. Powers, Robert Lowell, J.D. Salinger, Brendan Behan, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Sholom Aleichem, Thomas Mann, and Albert Camus, among others. Includes five essays on Sigmund Freud

God & the American writer by Alfred Kazin( Book )

17 editions published between 1997 and 2013 in English and held by 1,693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A series of essays on major American poets, novelists, and statesmen exploring "what the meaning of God has been for American writers, and how those writers ... have expressed it."--Jacket

The stature of Theodore Dreiser; a critical survey of the man and his work by Alfred Kazin( Book )

24 editions published between 1955 and 1965 in English and Multiple languages and held by 1,489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

F. Scott Fitzgerald: the man and his work by Alfred Kazin( Book )

46 editions published between 1951 and 1974 in English and held by 1,409 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A writer's America : landscape in literature by Alfred Kazin( Book )

15 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 1,144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines the American landscape, wild, pastoral, or urbanized, and its influence on poets, essayists, and novelists

The open form: essays for our time by Alfred Kazin( Book )

25 editions published between 1961 and 1970 in English and held by 1,099 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Writers at work : the Paris review interviews by George Plimpton( Book )

35 editions published between 1958 and 1987 in English and held by 1,062 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Interviews and biographical notes, prepared for book publication by George Plimpton."

The inmost leaf; a selection of essays by Alfred Kazin( Book )

32 editions published between 1941 and 1979 in English and held by 1,020 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe( Book )

23 editions published between 1981 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 684 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This 1852 novel provides a powerful, historical look at the treatment of slaves in the pre-Civil War South

The red badge of courage : an episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane( Book )

9 editions published between 1983 and 2004 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run ... As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices

Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present by Alfred Kazin( Book )

2 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne( Book )

21 editions published between 1966 and 1993 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents a selection of fifteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby-Dick; or, The whale by Herman Melville( Book )

8 editions published in 1956 in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Warner Bros. present Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn in the John Huston production of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," color by Technicolor, and Orson Welles as Father Mapple, screen play by Ray Bradbury and John Huston, a Moulin Picture, directed by John Huston, presented by Warner Bros

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser( Book )

23 editions published between 1963 and 1994 in English and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and moves to New York, and when her husband loses his job, returns to the stage

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism by Mark Twain( Book )

13 editions published between 1981 and 2003 in English and Kannada and held by 298 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave, and of the many people they encounter, including a pair of swindlers and two families in a feud

Call it sleep by Henry Roth( Book )

12 editions published between 1962 and 2006 in English and held by 296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim, though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves - and still enjoys. Having sold to date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York."--Jacket

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