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Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999)

Author of The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded

Includes the names: Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman, Cliffton Fadiman, C. (ed.) Fadiman, ed Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman ed., Editor Clifton Fadman, edtor Clifton Fadiman, Clifton; Et Al Fadiman ... (see complete list), Clifton Fadiman Editor, Clifton. Editor Fadiman, Clifton-edited by Fadiman, selected by Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Senior Editor Fadiman

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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature,… 1,045 copies, 15 reviews
The Lifetime Reading Plan 546 copies, 3 reviews
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (Editor) 439 copies, 3 reviews
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (Editor) 417 copies, 3 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Editor) 405 copies, 1 review
The Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 301 copies
Fantasia Mathematica 267 copies, 4 reviews
The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Books 1 & 2 235 copies
The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Book 1 191 copies
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes 157 copies, 1 review
The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Book 3 (Editor) 147 copies
The Mathematical Magpie 132 copies, 1 review
Reading I've Liked 115 copies, 1 review
The World Treasury of Children's Literature 97 copies
The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Book 2 90 copies, 1 review
Living Philosophies 63 copies
Wally the Wordworm 50 copies, 1 review
Fifty Years: Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales,… (Editor) 46 copies
Party of One: The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman 42 copies
The joys of wine 40 copies
Any number can play 26 copies
The Faber Book of Anecdotes 23 copies
The American Treasury 1455-1955 23 copies
Britannica Discovery Library: The People and Places Book 22 copies
The voyages of Ulysses (Legacy books) 18 copies
Enter Conversing 16 copies
I believe; the personal philosophies of certain eminent men and women of… 11 copies
Wine Buyers Guide 10 copies
The adventures of Hercules 10 copies
Dionysus; a case of vintage tales about wine 8 copies, 1 review
The Story of Young King Arthur (Legacy books) 8 copies
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (Introduction; Contributor) 8 copies
Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader 7 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, September 1974 7 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 9, May 1974 6 copies
Cricket Magazine, pilot issue, January 1973 6 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1973 6 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1974 6 copies
Ecocide--and thoughts toward survival 6 copies
The Puffin Children's Treasury: v. 1 6 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2, October 1974 5 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1973 5 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 1976 (Editor) 5 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6, February 1974 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1975 (Editor) 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 8, April 1974 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1973 (Editor) 4 copies, 1 review
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1976 4 copies
The Puffin Children's Treasury: v. 2 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 7, March 1977 (Editor) 4 copies
The Three Readers (Editor, some editions) 4 copies
Party of twenty; informal essays from Holiday magazine 4 copies
Profiles from the New Yorker 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 9, May 1975 (Editor) 4 copies
The World Treasury of Children's Literature.VOL 2 ONLY 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1973 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1974 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 10, June 1975 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 9, May 1976 3 copies
Cricket Magazine 1977 October 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1976 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1, September 1975 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, April 1975 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8, April 1976 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 7, March 1976 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 5, January 1977 (Editor) 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5, January 1976 (Editor) 3 copies
Appreciations 3 copies
The Writers Guild of America presents The Prize Plays of Television and… 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 11, July 1976 3 copies
A Toast to Wines and Spirits 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2, October 1975 3 copies
Empty Pages 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 9, May 1977 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 12, August 1975 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 7, March 1974 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1975 (Editor) 2 copies
Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica: Celebrating 225 Years of the 2 copies
Wally the Wordworm 2 copies
In memoriam, Christopher Morley 2 copies
The World Treasury of Children's Literature: 2 Volumes in a Slip Case 2 copies
TO THE CURIOUS, INTELLIGENT READER 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3, November 1975 (Editor) 2 copies
Cricket Magazine 1979 March 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, September 1976 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 11, July 1975 2 copies
Empty Pages ,A Search for Writing Competence in School &Society 1979… 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 5, January 1975 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 1974 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 10, June 1976 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 6, February 1977 2 copies
Cricket Magazine 1978 January 2 copies
The Adventures of Hercules 1 copy
In praise of E. B. White, Realist (reprinted from The New York Times Book… 1 copy
UN PLAN DE LECTURA PARA TODA LA VIDA 1 copy
The Three Readers 1 copy
Cricket: The Magazine for Children Volume 6, Number 10 December 1979 1 copy
Cricket Magazine 1979 February 1 copy
Doctor Faustus a profound novel by Thomas Mann 1 copy
In praise of E.B. White 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 8, April 1977 (Editor) 1 copy
ENTER, CONVERSING. Signed by Clifton Fadiman. 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 6, February 1976 1 copy
The World Of the Short Story 1 copy
Mann on Goethe [The Beloved Returns/Lotte in Weimar] 1 copy
Fireside reader; an assortment of stories, nonfiction, and verses chosen… 1 copy
The Last Christmas 1 copy
Jungle Books, The (The Macmillan Classics) 1 copy
VOICE OF THE CITY AND OTHER STORIES A SELECTION, WITH INTRODUCTION, BY… (Introduction) 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 12, August 1976 1 copy
Anecdotes - Faber Book Of (Editor) 1 copy
What Am I Doing Here? 1 copy
Typed letter signed to Ken McCormick 1 copy
1941-02-07 - Episode 144 - Jan Struther - Sir Wilmot Lewis 1 copy
The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman 1 copy, 1 review
"Books are weapons in the war of ideas." 1 copy
Five American Adventures, Complete with Teacher's Guide, the Great… 1 copy
Tales from Shakespeare: Macmillan Classics No.7 1 copy
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Moby Dick (Introduction, some editions) 30,832 copies, 477 reviews
Don Quixote (Associate Editor, some editions) 26,694 copies, 368 reviews
War and Peace (Introduction, some editions) 25,073 copies, 392 reviews
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Afterword, some editions) 15,180 copies, 219 reviews
Ethan Frome (Introduction, some editions) 8,663 copies, 196 reviews
The Red and the Black (Introduction, some editions) 8,476 copies, 117 reviews
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Afterword, some editions) 3,376 copies, 42 reviews
The Birth of Tragedy (Translator, some editions) 2,145 copies, 23 reviews
The Art of Eating (Introduction, some editions) 1,719 copies, 19 reviews
The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (Foreword) 924 copies, 8 reviews
The World Treasury of Science Fiction (Foreword) 797 copies, 2 reviews
The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought (Editor) 648 copies, 1 review
Dodsworth (Foreword, some editions) 551 copies, 10 reviews
As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 515 copies, 6 reviews
English Fairy Tales (Retold by Flora Annie Steel) (Afterword, some editions) 509 copies, 9 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 424 copies, 3 reviews
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Introduction, some editions) 369 copies, 6 reviews
The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (Introduction, some editions) 338 copies, 4 reviews
The Philosophy of Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil;… (Translator, some editions) 250 copies, 1 review
Britannica Great Books: Descartes and Spinoza (Associate Editor, some editions) 248 copies
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 227 copies, 4 reviews
The Short Stories of Henry James (Editor, some editions; Editor, some editions; Editor, some editions) 98 copies, 4 reviews
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's… (Contributor) 53 copies
The Reader's Digest Treasury of American Humor (Foreword) 52 copies
The World Treasury of Love Stories (Foreword) 35 copies
How to Use the Power of the Printed Word (Preface) 29 copies
The Short Stories of Henry James 8 copies
Famous last words (Foreword) 6 copies
Cricket and Other Friends (Narrator) 1 copy
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Fadiman, Clifton Paul
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Date of birth
1904-05-15
Date of death
1999-06-20
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
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Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Place of death
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Cause of death
Places of residence
Education
Columbia University
Occupations
author
broadcaster
writer
editor
radio host
Relationships
Fadiman, Anne (daughter)
Jacoby, Annalee (wife)
Organizations
Simon & Schuster
The New Yorker
Book of the Month Club
NBC (Information Please)
CBS (This Is Show Business)
Awards and honors
National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1993)
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