Burton Egbert Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson (Chillicothe, 9 novembre 1872 – 13 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)
  • Mysterium arcae Boule, traduzione latina di Arcadius Avellanus
• 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)

• 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

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• (EN) Burton Egbert Stevenson, su The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
• Opere di Burton Egbert Stevenson, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
• (EN) Opere di Burton Egbert Stevenson / Burton Egbert Stevenson (altra versione), su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Opere di Burton Egbert Stevenson, su Progetto Gutenberg.
• (EN) Audiolibri di Burton Egbert Stevenson, su LibriVox.
• (EN) Bibliografia di Burton Egbert Stevenson, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• (EN) Burton Egbert Stevenson, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• Stevenson, Burton Egbert, The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition

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