Everett F. Bleiler (1920–2010)
Autore di Essential Japanese Grammar
Sull'Autore
Everett F. Bleiler was born April 30, 1920 in Massachusetts. He received an anthropology degree from Harvard University in 1942 and a degree in the history of culture from the University of Chicago. He started working at Dover Publications in 1955, eventually becoming executive vice president in mostra altro 1967, and left the company in 1977. After leaving Dover, he worked at Charles Scribner's Sons until 1986. He edited or co-edited numerous works including the annual Best Science Fiction Stories series, the Year's Best Science Fiction Novels series, and several anthologies. His nonfiction work includes The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Science Fiction: The Early Years, and Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years. He received several awards including the 1978 World Fantasy Award (Special, Professional), the 1984 SFRA Pilgrim Award, the 1988 World Fantasy Life Achievement Award, the 1994 First Fandom Award, and the 2004 International Horror Guild Living Legend Award. He died on June 13, 2010 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Everett F. Bleiler
Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors From the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1982) — A cura di — 33 copie
The checklist of fantastic literature,: A bibliography of fantasy, weird and science fiction books published in the… (1972) 22 copie
Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years : A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and… (1998) 18 copie
Men of Space and Time — A cura di — 3 copie
Frontiers in space 1 copia
Firegang : a mythic fantasy 1 copia
Opere correlate
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Vampyre; and a Fragment of a Novel (1966) — A cura di — 271 copie
The Golem / The Man Who Was Born Again: Two German Supernatural Novels (1976) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 47 copie
Marmaduke Multiply's merry method of making minor mathematicians (1971) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 40 copie
Richmond: Scenes in the Life of a Bow Street Runner, Drawn Up from His Private Memoranda (1827) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 39 copie
Masters of Mystery: A Study of the Detective Story (1931) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 24 copie
Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine 1987 01 January-February — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Fantasy Commentator, Double Issue: Nos. 53 & 54 (Winter 2001-2) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bleiler, Everett Franklin
- Altri nomi
- Bleiler, E. F.
- Data di nascita
- 1920-04-30
- Data di morte
- 2010-06-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Interlaken, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- editor
bibliographer
scholar - Relazioni
- Bleiler, Richard (son)
- Organizzazioni
- Dover Publications
Charles Scribner's Sons - Premi e riconoscimenti
- International Horror Guild Living Legend (2003)
SFRA Pilgrim Award (1984)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 38
- Opere correlate
- 23
- Utenti
- 1,032
- Popolarità
- #24,952
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 35
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 2
If you take away the limitations of this book, it's still great. Did you know that Japanese doesn't have a future tense as such? You have to add a word like tomorrow, next week or a specific hour in order to imply something will happen later.
The book explains verb tenses, negative, a basic introduction to politeness degrees in pronouns, some idioms (many people complain the idioms used are sort of unfashionable but native speakers will understand you nonetheless), adverbs, adjectives and the two numerical counting systems.
I really love this book, it has helped me so much speaking to people during my two trips to Japan. It's such a shame they don't release an updated version in kindle because the book is really worth it. My copy is covered with coffee stains and the front cover is falling apart from overuse. One of the few books I read over and over again.… (altro)