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Hervey Allen

Born

in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States

December 08, 1889

Died

December 28, 1949

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Born William Hervey Allen. 1915 University of Pittsburgh graduate. In WWI served as a Lieutenant in the 28th (keystone) Division, US Army and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August, 1918. He wrote "Toward the Flame" (1926), a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war.

Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse, a 1933 bestseller. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited, of which he completed three works: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen ...more

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	Anthony Adverse (Anthony Adverse, #1-3) 4.02 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1933 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I by Hervey Allen, Steven Kirk Trout (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1926 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 1 4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1926 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthony Adverse, Part 1: The Roots of the Tree (Anthony Adverse, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forest and the Fort 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1943 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthony Adverse, Part 3: The Lonely Twin (Anthony Adverse, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthony Adverse, Part 2: The Other Bronze Boy (Anthony Adverse, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City in the Dawn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Action At Aquila 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1937	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bedford Village 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1944 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Anthony Adverse (3 books)
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“Religions change; beer and wine remain.”
― Hervey Allen

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“If Poe haunted her grave at night as tradition asserts, the nature of his experiences in a dark cemetery with the sound of the night wind through the funereal gratings and tall grave grasses must have been searing to the soul of one who was scarcely more than a boy.”
― Hervey Allen, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe

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