Burton Egbert Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson (Chillicothe, 9 novembre 187213 maggio 1962) è stato uno scrittore statunitense.

Studia dal 1890 al 1893 a Princeton e diventa bibliotecario e archivista. Nel 1918 fonda la Biblioteca americana a Parigi e ne diventa in seguito il direttore. Oltre alla sua professione di archivista, per la quale è particolarmente stimato, Burton Egbert Stevenson è scrittore e narratore prolifico di libri di viaggi e per bambini e di romanzi polizieschi.

  • A Soldier of Virginia; a Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's defeat (1901)
  • Cadets of Gascony: Two stories of old France (1904)
  • The Marathon Mystery; a Story of Manhattan (1904)
  • The Holliday Case; a Tale (1904)
  • The Girl With the Blue Sailor (1906)
  • Affairs of state; Being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills (1906)
  • The path of honor; a Tale of war in the Bocage (1910)
  • The spell of Holland: the Story of a pilgrimage to the land of dykes and windmills (1911)
  • The mystery of the Boule cabinet; a Detective story (1911)
  • The destroyer; a Tale of international intrigue (1913)
  • American men of mind (1913)
  • The charm of Ireland (1914)
  • The Girl from Alsace; a Romance of the great war (1915)[1]
  • A King in Babylon (1917)
  • The Gloved Hand; a Detective story (1920)
  • The Kingmakers (1922)
  • The House Next Door; a Detective story (1932)
  • The quest for the rose of Sharon (1909)
  • The heritage; a Story of defeat and victory (1902)
  • At odds with the regent; a Story of the cellamare conspiracy (1905)
  • [The mystery of] Villa Aurelia; a Riviera interlude (1932)
  • The red carnation; an Antony Bigelow story (1939)
  • The clue of the red carnation (1942)

Romanzi per ragazzi

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  • Tommy Remington's battle (1902)
  • The young section-hand (1905)
  • The young train dispatcher (1907)
  • The young train master (1909)
  • The home book of verse (1912)
  • Poems of American history (1922)
  • Great Americans as seen by the poets (1933)
  • The home book of Bible quotations (1949)
  • The home book of proverbs, maxims, and familiar phrases (1959)
  • American history in verse for boys and girls (1960)
  • The home book of modern verse; an extension of the home book of verse; being a selection from American and English poetry of the twentieth century (1960)
  • The home book of great poetry; a treasury of over one thousand favorite poems
  • Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them
  • The home book of verse for young folks
  • The home book of Shakespeare quotations; being also a concordance & a glossary of the unique words & phrases in the plays & poems
  1. ^ Inizialmente pubblicato come Little Comrade

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