Louis Kronenberger: Quotes, Biography, Bibliography, and a List of Books by Author Louis Kronenberger

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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about." -- Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger (December 9, 1904April 30, 1980) was an American critic and author. He was a novelist and biographer, and wrote extensively on drama and the eighteenth century.

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The Grand Manner (1929)
An Anthology of Light Verse (1935) editor
An Eighteenth Century Miscellany (1936) editor
Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-Century England (1942)
Reader's Companion (1945) editor
The Pleasure of Their Company: An Anthology of Civilized Writing (1946) editor
The Indispensable Johnson and Boswell (1950)
Alexander Pope: Selected Works (1951) editor
Grand Right and Left (1952)
The Thread of Laughter: Chapters on English Stage Comedy from Jonson to Maugham (1952)
Cavalcade of Comedy (1953) editor
The Best Plays of 1952-1953, Burns Mantle Yearbook (1953) editor
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw (1953) editor
George Bernard Shaw : A Critical Survey (1953) editor
Mademoiselle Colombe by Jean Anouilh (1954) adaptation
The Best Plays of 1953-1954 (1954) editor
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)
Republic of Letters: Essays on Various Writers (1955)
The Best Plays of 1954-1955 (1955) editor
The Portable Johnson and Boswell (1955)
The Best Plays of 1955-1956 (1956) editor
The Best Plays of 1956-1957 (1957) editor
Marlborough's Duchess: A Study in Worldliness (1958)
The Best Plays of 1957-1958 (1958) editor
Madame De Lafayette: The Story of a Patriot's Wife (1959)
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (1959) editor
The Best Plays of 1958-1959 (1959) editor
The Best Plays of 1959-1960 (1960) editor
The Best Plays of 1960-1961 (1961) editor
A Month of Sundays (1961)
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, A Faithful Reproduction of the 1729 Edition (1961) editor with Max Goberman
The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962)
Novelists on Novelists (1962) editor
Great World: Portraits and Scenes from Greville's Memoirs, 1814-1860 (1963)
The Cart and the Horse (1964)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Six Plays (1964) editor
The Faber Book of Aphorisms (1964) editor with W. H. Auden
The Polished Surface: Essays in the Literature of Worldliness (1969)
Quality: Its Image in the Arts (1969) editor
The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee (1970)
No Whippings, No Gold Watches (1970) memoirs
Brief Lives: a Biographical Companion to the Arts (1971) editor
A Mania for Magnificence (1972)
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1972)
The Last Word: Portraits of Fourteen Master Aphorists (1972)
Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes: His Life and Times (1974)
Oscar Wilde (1976)
Ibsen (1977) editor with Harold Clurman

Total Books: 24

Animal Vegetable Mineral (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670127504
ISBN-10: 0670127507

An Anthology of Light Verse (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781406752137
ISBN-10: 1406752134

Aphorisms the VIking Book Of (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670746415
ISBN-10: 067074641X

The Best Plays of 19521953 (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780405091797
ISBN-10: 0405091796

The Best Plays of 19541955 (Other)

The Best Plays of 19551956 (Other)

The Best Plays of 19561957 (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780405076602
ISBN-10: 0405076606

The Best Plays of 19571958 (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780405091827
ISBN-10: 0405091826

The Best Plays of 19581959 [Best Plays Series] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780405091834
ISBN-10: 0405091834

The Best Plays of 19591960 (Other) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780405091841
ISBN-10: 0405091842

The Best Plays of 19601961 (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780396045540
ISBN-10: 0396045545

Brief Lives a Biographical Guide to the Arts (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780713902570
ISBN-10: 0713902574

The Extraordinary Mr Wilkes His Life and Times (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780385051316
ISBN-10: 038505131X

Extraordinary Mr Wilkes John Wilkes (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780450021176
ISBN-10: 0450021173

The Faber Book of Aphorisms a Personal Selection (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780571095193
ISBN-10: 0571095194

Johnson and Boswell 2 (Hardcover) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670010349
ISBN-10: 0670010340

Kings and Desperate Men (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780394700830
ISBN-10: 039470083X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Kings and Desperate Men Life in Eighteenthcentury England (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781412810708
ISBN-10: 1412810701

A Month of Sundays (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670487165
ISBN-10: 0670487163

Oscar Wilde [Library of World biography] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780316504584
ISBN-10: 0316504580
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

The VIking Book of Aphorisms (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140059663
ISBN-10: 0140059660
Genre: Reference

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