Hersey, John 1914-1993

Overview

Works:	445 works in 2,120 publications in 23 languages and 63,966 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction History War fiction Pastoral fiction Pictorial works Criticism, interpretation, etc Sea stories Historical fiction Personal narratives‡vAmerican Musical fiction
Roles:	Author, Editor, Annotator, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Author of screenplay, Illustrator, Other
Classifications:	PS3515.E7715, 813.5

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Hersey

John Hersey by David Sanders( Book )
American war literature, 1914 to Vietnam by Jeffrey Walsh( Book )
The mythopoeic reality : the postwar American nonfiction novel by Masʼud Zavarzadeh( Book )
John Hersey revisited by David Sanders( Book )
Understanding the literature of World War II : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents by James H Meredith( Book )

The survival tales of John Hersey by Nancy Lyman Huse( Book )
Into the valley; a skirmish of the marines by John Hersey( Book )
Fifty years of the American novel; a Christian appraisal by Harold C Gardiner( Book )
CliffsNotes Hiroshima by Susan Van Kirk( )
John Hersey and James Agee : a reference guide by Nancy Lyman Huse( Book )
Writers at work : the Paris review interviews, eighth series( Book )
In my opinion; an inquiry into the contemporary novel by Orville Prescott( Book )
Into the valley : Marines at Guadalcanal by John Hersey( Book )
John Hersey's A bell for Adano, Hiroshima, and other works; a critical commentary by Francis R Gemme( Book )
The war lover by Philip Leacock( Visual )
A study guide for John Hersey's "A bell for Adano."( )
John Hersey interview with Kay Bonetti by John Hersey( Recording )
An Integrated teaching unit on John Hersey's Hiroshima developed at Purdue University( Book )
John Hersey( Book )
History of the class of nineteen thirty-six, Yale College by Yale College (1887- )( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Hersey

Hiroshima by John Hersey( Book )

371 editions published between 1946 and 2017 in 18 languages and held by 9,519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast

A bell for Adano by John Hersey( Book )

173 editions published between 1944 and 1994 in 12 languages and held by 4,629 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An Italian-American major, part of American occupation forces in Sicily during World War II, tries to reform the town in his charge by being decent to people. His efforts are epitomized by his efforts to replace the 700-year-old bell melted down for bullets by the fascists

The wall by John Hersey( Book )

148 editions published between 1937 and 1988 in 8 languages and held by 3,506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Wall tells the inspirational story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an symbol of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with cruelty, torture, starvation and humiliation

A single pebble by John Hersey( Book )

85 editions published between 1956 and 1992 in 8 languages and held by 2,730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While in China on business in the 1920s, a young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River

The child buyer : a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child by John Hersey( Book )

69 editions published between 1960 and 1989 in 4 languages and held by 2,049 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Written in the form of a legislative hearing. A satire with overtones of horror on American public education, with special barbs for superintendents, school psychologists, doting teachers, PTA leaders, materialist parents, and ignorant legislators. An exposé of the corruptible ego in each man." "This powerful indictment of the American educational system and the material values placed on intelligence in our society takes the form of a Senate hearing. The Senate investigation concerns the attempts of Wissey Jones to buy Barry Rudd, a precociously brilliant child. Through a series of medical procedures and the use of drugs, the child is transformed into an extremely efficient thinking machine. That the child's personality is of secondary importance compared to the benefits to be derived from this supercomputer is at the crux of the argument. Barry's parents and the local educational authorities are initially opposed but are slowly won over by Jones's appeals to their vanity."

Too far to walk by John Hersey( Book )

33 editions published between 1965 and 1976 in English and Spanish and held by 1,963 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A listless college student who longs to have fulfilling experiences and be a charismatic figure makes a Faustian bargain

The Algiers Motel incident by John Hersey( Book )

35 editions published between 1968 and 1998 in English and held by 1,943 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A personal investigation into the deaths of three black youths during the Detroit riots

Manzanar = Ringoen by John Armor( Book )

16 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in 3 languages and held by 1,916 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chronicles the internments of Japanese Americans in the United States during the mid 1940s

The call by John Hersey( Book )

19 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 1,862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Het leven van een Amerikaanse zendeling in China aan het eind van de 19e en het begin van de 20e eeuw

The war lover by John Hersey( Book )

39 editions published between 1959 and 1979 in English and held by 1,830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

War Lover follows Buzz Morrow, a pilot who glorifies war and his military duties. The author makes the point that wars exist precisely because there are men like Buzz who revel in them. At the same time, he also gives us a detailed account of a Flying Fortress crew based in England during WW II

White lotus by John Hersey( Book )

39 editions published between 1964 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,792 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

White Lotus tells of her enslavement as a girl of 15 when a yellow race overran Arizona and took her to an eastern country. An allegory with parallels to the Negro-white history in America

Under the eye of the storm by John Hersey( Book )

29 editions published between 1967 and 1979 in 5 languages and held by 1,760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When their sailboat Harmony is thrust into the center of a great storm, two men and their wives face some brutal changes both in themselves and in their relationships with each other

The conspiracy : a novel by John Hersey( Book )

23 editions published between 1972 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 1,609 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Nero's secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor's life

Ralph Ellison; a collection of critical essays by John Hersey( Book )

18 editions published between 1973 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,445 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of essays by celebrated critics and authors examines the American author's great novel Invisible man, and his enduring influence on modern fiction

Here to stay by John Hersey( Book )

31 editions published between 1962 and 1988 in English and held by 1,311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hersey tells the story of an old lady marooned on a rooftop amidst floods caused by a hurricane. He ends with his famour Hinoshima

Antonietta : a novel by John Hersey( Book )

11 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in 3 languages and held by 1,257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"John Hersey's brilliantly inventive novel is the romantic odyssey of a Stradivarius violin from its creation three hundred years ago in Cremona through its many adventures in the hands of the famous and infamous ... It begins in 1699 as the great Stradivari, in love at fifty-five, fashions a magnificent instrument and names it Antonietta, after the object of his desire. It ends on Martha's Vineyard with a tone-deaf financier purchasing Antonietta to improve his image as a person of culture. In the intervening years--a sparkling variety of incidents--we see Stradivari's bewitching violin affecting the lives of: the young Mozart in Paris ... the fiercely ambitious Berlioz ... and Stravinsky ... The composers come alive in all their idiosyncrasies, and Antonietta becomes a compelling presence--giving voice to the changing character, and eternal art, of music over the centuries."

The walnut door by John Hersey( Book )

20 editions published between 1977 and 1997 in English and held by 1,234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

My petition for more space by John Hersey( Book )

21 editions published between 1937 and 1977 in English and Spanish and held by 1,154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In an overcrowded world where acquiescence is the law of survival, a New Haven man petitions the government for more space

Key West tales by John Hersey( Book )

10 editions published between 1993 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains a collection of short stories set in Key West, Florida

Into the valley; a skirmish of the marines by John Hersey( Book )

42 editions published between 1943 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A skirmish of the marines

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African Americans in literature American fiction American literature Atomic bomb Atomic bomb--Blast effect B-17 bomber Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : California--Manzanar China China--Yangtze River Gorges Concentration camps Conspiracies Courage Dams Education Ellison, Ralph Engineers, Foreign Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) Hersey, John, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Japanese Americans Japan--Hiroshima-shi Male college students Manners and customs Manzanar War Relocation Center Michigan--Detroit Military campaigns Missionaries Musical fiction Nero,--Emperor of Rome, Physicians Poland--Warsaw Political persecution Racism Riots Satire, American Sea stories Slavery Solomon Islands Southwest, New Stradivari, Antonio, Survival Travel United States Violin Violinists War and literature War in literature Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Warsaw, Poland : 1943) World War (1939-1945)

Alternative Names

H., J. R. 1914-1993

H., J. R. (John Richard Hersey) 1914-1993

Harsī, Jona

Harsī, Jona 1914-1993

Hersej, Džon

Hersey John

Hersey, John 1914-1993

Hersey, John R.

Hersey, John R. 1914-1993

Hersey John Richard

Hersey, John Richard 1914-

Hersey, John Richard 1914-1993

Hersi, Džon

Hērsijs, Džons 1914-1993

Ioannes Hersey

J. R. H 1914-1993

J. R. H (John Richard Hersey), 1914-1993

John Hersey Amerikaans journalist (1914-1993)

John Hersey escritor y periodista estadounidense

John Hersey giornalista e scrittore statunitense

John Hersey pisarz amerykański

John Hersey US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Journalist

John Richard Hersey

Τζον Χέρσυ

Джон Хёрси

ג'ון הרסי

הרסי, ג'ון

הרסי, ג'ון, 1914-

הרסי, ג'ון ריצ'ארד

הרסי, ג'ון ריצ'רד 1914-1993

הרסיי, ג'והן

הרסיי, ג'והן ריצ'רד 1914-1993

جان هرسی

جون هيرسي، 1914-1993

هرسی, جان

허쉬, 존 1914-1993

허시, 존 리차드 1914-1993

허시, 존 리처드 1914-1993

허어시, 존 1914-1993

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