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A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago
Ben Hecht
Published
1922
by Covici-McGee in Chicago
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Written in
Edition Notes
Title on 2 leaves.
| Statement | [by] Ben Hecht; design and illustrations by Herman Rosse. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3515.E18 T5 1922 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 8 p. l., 19-288, [1] p. |
| Number of Pages | 288 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL6649742M |
| LC Control Number | 22023936 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 1492349 |
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In , Ben Hecht began writing a daily column for the Chicago Daily News. Called “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago,” the column provided fictive sketches of the bustling urban landscape in Chicago at the time. A year later, 64 of these vignettes were compiled and published as a book with the same title as the column. The book, A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, started as a column in the Chicago Daily News s. The author, Ben Hecht, is a name some of you might recognize, but if you do, I’ll bet it’s because Hecht achieved screenwriting stardom in Hollywood in the s, writing or doctoring scripts a whole bunch of classic films.
Book from Project Gutenberg: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago. A Thousand and one afternoons in Chicago. New York: Covici Friede. MLA Citation. Hocht, Ben. A Thousand and one afternoons in Chicago / Illustrations by Herman Rosse Covici Friede New York Australian/Harvard Citation. Hocht, Ben. , A Thousand and one afternoons in Chicago / Illustrations by Herman Rosse Covici Friede New York.
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A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago is a collection of columns he wrote for the Daily News. These amazing stories brim with the undercurrents of the city bringing to life the everyday characters who wandered its streets during the s.
Hecht was one of those rare souls who immersed himself into Chicago and in doing so captures not /5(12). A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago book.
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Create Book\/a>, schema:CreativeWork\/a> ; \u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 library. "One Thousand and One Afternoons" were launched in June, They were presented to the public as journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature, where in large part, journalism really dwells.3/5(2).
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Chicago Tribune - Julia Keller. Hecht's youthful journalism remains both movving and dazzling. He sided wi — Richard Rayner. Los Angeles Times.
The columns A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago book 1, Afternoons in Chicago are scruffy time capsules of an earlier Chicago, an era that is long gone but still recognizable to readers' imaginations. Michigan Avenue, Lake Michigan Brand: University of Chicago Press.
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A Thousand And One Afternoons In Chicago by Ben Hecht: Preface It was a day in the spring of Dismal shadows, really Hechtian shadows, filled the editorial "coop" in _The Chicago Daily News_ building. Outside the rain was slanting down in the way that Hecht's own rain always slants. In walked Hecht.
He had been divorced from our staff. sketches, nearly finished "One Thousand and One Afternoon." But a year went by, and through all that year there had not been an issue of _The Chicago Daily News_ without a Ben Hecht sketch.
And still the manuscripts dropped down regularly on the editor's desk. Comedies, dialogues, homilies, one-act tragedies, storiettes, sepia panels.
But this one was my favorite. So unlike the pastel or primary hues of kiddie picture books, its pages held the first real art in my life.
It was the early s, and we didn’t have television. Visually speaking, the world was pretty dull. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago had been published inand I was ready to discover it.
After a long hiatus, I found the book again, and traced back some of the ways in which I was influenced, as an artist and as a writer, by A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, this collection of newspaper columns written by Ben Hecht, with art by Herman Rosse.
To call that influence profound wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
