Childrens time travel fiction of the 1990s score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. The door in the mott street backyard that takes tony mctavish levy sic from dirty, overcrowded 1924 new york into neat little new amsterdam also makes him an authority on the indians, to the considerable annoyance of literal, already insecure teacher miss clatt. Youve been out of the picture for nearly seven decades. A kid for two farthings 1953 katharine briggs she wrote several books on fairy tales and fantasy magic.
A forgotten classic of american childrens fantasy, published in the lion and the unicorn, volume 27, number 1, january 2003, can be read here in pdf format. The bear went over the mountain william kotzwinkle advertisement. The howard fast papers include correspondence, journals, appointment books, address books, financials, writings, promotion and. Accelerated reader book list whitefish middle school. Fast tony and the wonderful door 1952 also appeared as. Born in new york city, his mother was british and his father the son of ukrainian immigrants. Illustrations by imero gobbato add new dimensions all their own. Warren ellis and jason howard ignite a highspeed new action serial. Tony and the wonderful door by howard fast abebooks. The son of immigrants, fast grew up in new york city and published. A charming fantasy, it is also a warmly human story of people and hope.
Bonnie mettler when he has just the right feeling, tony can open the door in his new york city tenement backyard and step through to the time when the dutch and indians lived on manhattan islandbut no one. See all books authored by howard fast, including the immigrants, and second generation, and more on. Tony and the wonderful door, by fast, howard and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Born howard melvin fast, november 11, 1914, in new york, ny.
Howard fast was one of the popular american author and television write, who was famous for writing his books based on the historical fiction genre. Tony and the wonderful door fast, howard, gobbato, imero on. Stevie was locked in the closet, fast asleep with halfdigested fried eggs drying in. The son of immigrants, fast grew up in new york city and published his first novel upon finishing high school in 1933. Most of the pdf files listed here are made from covertocover scans of. Prolific author howard fast wrote more than 80 books, many of them bestsellers, over the course of a career that spanned nearly 70 years. Toni i volshebnaya dver tony and the wonderful door. Cunningham, walter erickson, walter ericson, howard melvin fast source for information on fast, howard 19142003.
Howard fast biography, birth date, birth place and pictures. The picture book history of the jews was written with bette fast if you like howard fast books. Tony stands next to him, and steve is unable to react in any way, shape or form, other than releasing the doorknob so tony can open up the door. Howard fast books list of books by author howard fast. Howard fast s most popular book is the bridge builders story. Buy a cheap copy of the magic door book by howard fast. We apologize for inaccuracies in the computergenerated english translation. Tony and the wonderful door, blue heron new york, ny, 1952. Tony and the magic door tony and the wonderful door. Howard fast was an american novelist and television writer.
Author of bestsellers such as citizen tom paine, freedom road, my glorious brothers, and spartacus, fast joined the american communist party in 1943 and remained a loyal member until 1957. Howard fast was one of the most prolific american writers of the twentieth century. He was a bestselling author of more than eighty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays. Tony and the wonderful door by howard fast goodreads. When he has just the right feeling, tony can open the door in his new york city tenement backyard and step through to the time when the dutch and indians lived on manhattan islandbut no one believes him. He was born on november 11, 1914, and died on march 12, 2003. Howard melvin fast november 11, 1914 march 12, 2003 was an american novelist and. Fallen angel, originally written as walter ericson, was also published under the title of mirage. The wonderful flight to the mushroom planet 1954 wolf mankowitz. In 1974, fast and his family moved to california, where he wrote television scripts, including such television programs as how the west was won. The magic door 1980 of time and cats 1959 also appeared as. Najpoznatiji je kao autor historijskog romana spartacus koji je ekraniziran u.
Sam and clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life. Howard melvin fast november 11, 1914 march 12, 2003 was an american novelist and television writer. Childrens time travel fiction of the 1950s 26 books. Howard fast has 189 books on goodreads with 49589 ratings. Later that decade, fast broke with the party over issues of conditions in the soviet union and eastern europe. Imero gobbato when he has just the right feeling, tony can open the door in his new york city tenement backyard and step through to the time when the dutch and indians lived on manhattan islandbut no one. Tony and the wonderful door howard fast story of a boy who grows up in the new york of the 1920s and what happend to him when he steps through a wonderful door. Tony and the wonderful door touch of infinity trial of abigail goodman unvanquished war and peace winston affair.
Tony and the wonderful door howard fast, william vigoda on. Howard fast s eyewitness account of fascist mobs attack. Through many of his works ran a strong liberal streak, the legacy of fast s leftleaning political convictions. Doc forbes sells the headdress to his good friend the curator of the museum of the american indian where tony discovers another wonderful door. Tony and the wonderful door has been forgotten, despite an impressive publishing history. Howard fast s life, from a roughandtumble jewish new york street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the horatio alger myth. Contents show biographyedit early lifeedit fast was born in new york city. Author fast sometimes uses the pen names walter ericson and e. Howard fast s story of tony s adventures on both sides of the wonderful door is a tale that can be read on several levels.
Tony and the wonderful door by howard fast abebooks passion for books. When he has just the right feeling, tony can open the door in his new york city tenement backyard and step through to the time when the dutch and indians lived on. Tony and the wonderful door corrected typescript, book for a musical, two copies, undated. Asides on psychology, economics and sociology inundate the already flimsy imaginative device and peter stuyvesants turbulent new york is considerably calmed down. Howard fast papers, 19032006 university of pennsylvania. Steves breath is caught in his chest with an awful noise as he follows tony out.
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