Albert J. Guerard

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Albert Joseph Guerard (1914-2000) was an American critic, novelist, and professor. He was born in Houston, Texas, and educated at Stanford University, (B.A. 1934), (Ph.D. 1938) and Harvard University, (M.A. 1936). He served in the psychological warfare branch of the United States army from 1943 to 1945 where he was a technical sergeant. He was professor of English at Harvard University (1938-1954) and then at Stanford University (1961-1985).

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[edit] Novels

  • The Past Must Alter. London, Longman, 1937; New York, Holt, 1938.
  • The Hunted. New York, Knopf, 1944; London, Longman, 1947.
  • Maquisard: A Christmas Tale. New York, Knopf, 1945; London, Longman, 1946.
  • Night Journey. New York, Knopf, 1950; London, Longman, 1951.
  • The Bystander. Boston, Little Brown, 1958; London, Faber, 1959.
  • The Exiles. London, Faber, 1962; New York, Macmillan, 1963.
  • Christine/Annette. New York, Dutton, 1985.
  • Gabrielle: An Entertainment. New York, Fine, 1992.
  • The Hotel in the Jungle. Stanford, California, CSLI, 1995.
  • Maquisard: A Christmas Tale. Novato, California, Lyford Books, 1995.

[edit] Short stories

  • Suspended Sentences. Santa Barbara, California, John Daniel, 1999.
  • Uncollected Short Stories
  • "Davos in Winter," in Hound and Horn (Cambridge, Massachusetts), October-December 1933.
  • "Tragic Autumn," in The Magazine (Beverly Hills, California), December 1933.
  • "Miss Prindle's Lover," in The Magazine (Beverly Hills, California), February 1934; revised edition, in Wake (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Spring 1948.
  • "Turista," in The Best American Short Stories of 1947, edited byMartha Foley. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
  • "The Incubus," in The Dial (New York), vol. 1, no. 2, 1960.
  • "The Lusts and Gratifications of Andrada," in Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1962.
  • "On the Operating Table," in Denver Quarterly, Autumn 1966.
  • "The Journey," in Partisan Review (New Brunswick, New Jersey), Winter 1967.
  • "The Rabbit and the Tapes," in Sewanee Review (Tennessee), Spring1972.
  • "The Pillars of Hercules," in Fiction (New York), December 1973.
  • "Bon Papa Reviendra," in Tri-Quarterly (Evanston, Illinois), Spring1975.
  • "Post Mortem: The Garcia Incident," in Southern Review (BatonRouge, Louisiana), Spring 1978.
  • "Diplomatic Immunity," in Sequoia (Stanford, California), Autumn-Winter, 1978.
  • "The Poetry of Flight," in Northwest Magazine (Portland, Oregon), 22 January 1984.
  • "The Mongol Orbit," in Sequoia (Stanford, California), CentennialIssue, 1989.

[edit] Criticism

  • Robert Bridges: A Study of Traditionalism in Poetry. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, and London, Oxford University Press, 1942.
  • Joseph Conrad. New York, New Directions, 1947.
  • Thomas Hardy: The Novels and Stories. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1949; London, Oxford University Press, 1950; revised edition, 1964.
  • André Gide. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, and London, Oxford University Press, 1951; revised edition, 1969.
  • Conrad the Novelist. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard UniversityPress, 1958; London, Oxford University Press, 1959.
  • The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner. NewYork, Oxford University Press, 1976; London, Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • The Touch of Time: Myth, Memory, and the Self. Stanford, California, Stanford Alumni Association, 1980.
  • Editor, Prosateurs Américains de XXe Siécle. Paris, Laffont, 1947.
  • Editor, The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy. New York, HoltRinehart, 1961.
  • Editor, Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1963.
  • Editor, Perspective on the Novel, special issue of Daedalus (Boston), Spring 1963.
  • Co-Editor, The Personal Voice: A Contemporary Prose Reader. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1964.
  • Editor, Stories of the Double. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1967.
  • Editor, Mirror and Mirage. Stanford, California, Stanford AlumniAssociation, 1980.

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