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Willard Thorp (1899–1990)

Author of Four Classic American Novels (The Scarlet Letter / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / The Red Badge of Courage / Billy Budd)

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Includes the names: Willard Throp, Ed. Willard Thorp, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Works by Willard Thorp

Four Classic American Novels (The Scarlet Letter / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / The Red Badge of Courage / Billy Budd) (1969) — Editor — 378 copies
Literary history of the United States (1963) — Editor — 200 copies
A Southern Reader (1955) — Editor — 14 copies
Great Short Works of the American Renaissance (1967) 12 copies
Herman Melville: Representative Selections (1938) — Editor — 10 copies
Great Short Works of American Realism (1968) — Editor — 8 copies
The American literary record (1941) — Editor; Editor — 6 copies
American writing in the twentieth century (1959) 6 copies
American Issues: Volume One: The Social Record (1955) — Editor — 5 copies
The lost tradition of American letters (2013) 3 copies
The Lives of Eighteen from Princeton 3 copies
American Humorists - American Writers 42: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1964) — Editor — 3 copies
American humorists 2 copies
The Princeton Graduate School (2000) 2 copies
Catholic Novelists in Defense of Their Faith, 1829-1865 (The American Catholic Tradition) (1978) 2 copies
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Associated Works

The Scarlet Letter (1850) — Introduction, some editions — 41,590 copies, 416 reviews
Sister Carrie (1900) — Afterword, some editions — 4,374 copies, 67 reviews
The Turn of the Screw, and Other Short Novels (1962) — Foreword, some editions — 1,525 copies, 12 reviews
Billy Budd and Other Tales [Signet Classics] (1979) — Editor — 1,050 copies, 13 reviews
The Dilemma of the Southern Writer (1961) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Canonical name
Thorp, Willard
Legal name
Thorp, William Willard
Birthdate
1899-04-20
Date of death
1990-02-15
Gender
male
Education
Princeton University (PhD | 1926)
Occupations
literary historian
editor
critic
Organizations
Princeton University
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Sidney, New York, USA
Places of residence
Sidney, New York, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Place of death
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Associated Place (for map)
New Jersey, USA

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Rating
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ISBNs
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