Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Peaceable Kingdom An American saga by Jan de Hartog Jan de Hartog. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Jan de Hartog , (born April 22, 1914, Haarlem, Netherlands—died September 22, 2002, Houston, Texas, U.S.), Dutch-American novelist and playwright who wrote adventure stories in both Dutch and English. De Hartog early was an adventurer, twice running away from home to work at sea. During World War II he joined the Dutch Resistance and in 1943 was forced into hiding. Later that year he fled to England and eventually settled in the United States. His first major novel, Hollands glorie: roman van de zeesleepvaart (1947; Captain Jan: A Story of Ocean Tugboats ), relates with humour the tale of a young boy’s career in the merchant navy. De Hartog’s later novels, written in English, are of mainly entertainment value. Among these are A Sailor’s Life (1956), The Inspector (1960), The Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga (1972), The Lamb’s War (1980), The Trail of the Serpent (1983), and Star of Peace (1984). Many of the novels were adapted into films. Of his plays, the most popular is the comedy The Fourposter , first produced in 1951. Jan de Hartog. Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Contents. Biography. Early years. Jan de Hartog was born to a Dutch Calvinist Minister and professor of theology, Arnold Hendrik, and his wife, Lucretia de Hartog (who herself was a lecturer in medieval mysticism), in 1914. He was raised in the city of Haarlem, the Netherlands. [1] At around the age of 11, he ran away to become a cabin boy, otherwise referred to as a "sea mouse" on board a Dutch fishing boat. His father had him brought home, but shortly afterwards, Jan ran off to sea again. The experiences thus gained became material for some of his future novels, as many of his life experiences did. [2] At 16, he briefly attended the Netherlands Naval College [1] [2] but was only there for a year. Per his own account, he was expelled, and told emphatically by his angry schoolmaster, "This school is not for pirates!" [3] De Hartog was a coal shoveler on the night shifts with the Amsterdam Harbor Police until 1932. As he often had time on his hands, he began to write here. While employed as skipper of a tour boat on the Amsterdam Canals, he wrote several mysteries featuring Inspector Gregor Boyarski of the Amsterdam Harbor Police. At this time he used a pseudonym "F.R. Eckmar" (which is euphemistically translatable as "whatever." The literal meaning of 'verrek maar' is 'drop dead,' and it is commonly used like the English expression 'go and jump in the lake') for these works which ("luckily", according to the author himself) were never translated into English. His theater career began in the late 1930s at the Amsterdam Municipal Theater, where he acted in and wrote a play. [2] World War II. De Hartog's career as a writer, as well as his personal life, was decisively influenced by a coincidence that occurred during World War II. In May 1940, just ten days before Nazi Germany invaded and swiftly occupied the hitherto-neutral Netherlands, de Hartog published his book Hollands Glorie ( Holland's Glory , translated much later to English as Captain Jan ). The novel described the life of the highly skilled sailors on ocean-going tugboats, a specialized field of nautical enterprise in which the Dutch have always taken the lead. Without saying it in so many words, de Hartog portrayed the sailors—doing a difficult, dangerous and poorly rewarded job —as the modern successors to the bold navigators of the Dutch Golden Age. In fact, the book's plot as such had nothing political, anti-German or anti-Nazi, the sailor protagonists' conflict being mainly with nature and with their highly paternalistic and authoritarian (and thoroughly Dutch) employers. Nevertheless, for a country undergoing the shock of invasion and occupation, the book with its outspoken assertion of and pride in Dutch identity became a bestseller in the occupied Netherlands and a focus of popular opposition to the Nazi occupation. As a result, the Gestapo took a lively interest in de Hartog himself, who had joined the non-military Dutch resistance movement, [2] performing/writing plays while assisting in the concealment and relocation of Jewish babies to avoid having them sent to concentration camps. His book was banned [1] and he was forced into hiding, assuming the identity of an elderly woman in a nursing home. Eventually, he staged a difficult and adventure-filled escape to England. [4] His book became the best selling novel of the war years in the Netherlands. [5] In London he became deeply involved in the community of the exiled Dutch sailors. The exiles worked with their British allies, often going on dangerous missions, with inadequately armed (or sometimes, completely unarmed) boats. He joined the Netherlands Merchant Marine as a correspondent in 1943, and later served as a ship's captain for which he received Netherlands' "Cross of Merit". [1] This experience served as the background to several of his later books such as The Captain and Stella . Stella was made into a movie, starring Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, and William Holden under the title The Key ; it also started de Hartog on the route to becoming a pacifist which later culminated when he joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). After World War II. De Hartog had many hesitations about authorizing the translation of Hollands Glorie into English, and when finally he did in 1947 the English version (entitled Captain Jan ) did not have as much success as the Dutch original. However, in the wake of the war he made the decision to remain in the UK; later he relocated to the USA. He also made the professional decision to write most of his later works in English, beginning with The Lost Sea (1951), which was a fictional account of his experiences working aboard ship as a boy, colloquially called a "sea mouse." [2] Precisely because in the war years he had been regarded as close to a national hero, quite a few people in the Netherlands resented this decision to write in English and felt betrayed and abandoned by him. While the sales of his books in the English-speaking world soared, his reputation in his own homeland took somewhat of a plunge, which took years to repair. For his part de Hartog continued to regard himself as—and take pride in being—a Dutchman, even after living several decades in America, and many of his later books had Dutch protagonists and themes. Indeed, for many people outside the Netherlands, these books became a major source of information about Dutch society, culture and modern history. In 1952, while visiting New York, he encountered a play he had written while still in hiding during the war, [2] and had sold the rights to while in England. [4] The play was called The Fourposter . A New York Times reviewer called it "the most civilized comedy we have had on marriage for years." [2] It went on to win de Hartog a Tony Award at the 6th annual Tony Awards Show for Best Play. Columbia Pictures also made The Fourposter into a partially animated movie, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. The scenes from the play were linked by cartoon sequences between them. The film was nominated for both, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for its cinematography. Later, in 1966, it became the musical I Do! I Do! . The play also appeared under its original name at the Theatre New Brunswick in 1974. Jan and Marjorie de Hartog took a 90-foot Dutch ship (called The Rival ) and transformed it into a houseboat which they made their home. During the severe floods in the Netherlands of 1953, The Rival was transformed into a floating hospital, which de Hartog wrote about in The Little Ark . [1] Moving to America. In the late 50s the de Hartogs decided to take The Rival to the USA, on the deck of a freighter. [2] They had difficulty locating a dock with cranes large enough to lift the houseboat from the freighter, but eventually made for Houston, Texas. They decided they liked it there, and stayed. While Jan was out lecturing in Houston on playwriting, Marjorie was looking for community volunteer opportunities for both of them to participate in. She decided on Jefferson Davis County Hospital (now the Ben Taub Memorial Hospital). Conditions there were bad at that time, and with the hospital being significantly underfunded, understaffed, and overcrowded, showed no sign of getting better. [1] Jan decided to document the conditions there, resulting in the non-fiction memoir The Hospital (1964), which exposed the awful conditions of Houston's charity hospitals in the 1960s. The book received a national response, but also a local response in which, within a week of the book's release, nearly four hundred citizens volunteered at the hospital. [1] It led to significant reforms of the city's indigent healthcare system through the creation of the Harris County Hospital District. It also led, however, to considerable hostility and many anonymous threats, which finally forced the de Hartogs to move away from Houston. [3] In 1967 de Hartog wrote The Captain , which revisited his love of the sea, featuring a central character based loosely on himself called Martinus Harinxma, who had first appeared in The Lost Sea (1951). The book was a success, and Martinus would live on as a central character in several sequels. Before starting work on the second in the Martinus series, Jan wrote of the experience of adopting his two daughters, who were Korean War orphans, in The Children , which appeared in 1969. He afterwards wrote a fictionalised account of the origin of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga of 1972, was nominated for the Nobel Prize, and was followed eight years later by a Quaker novel, The Lamb's War (1980). He published the next book in the Martinus series, The Commodore , in 1986, while living in "The Walled Garden" in Somerset, England, and it was followed by The Centurion (1989), which explored an interest that he and his wife had become involved in: dowsing. In the novel, Martinus Harinxma dabbled with dowsing and was led on a journey that followed in the footsteps of a Roman centurion. The real story, in terms of researching and writing this book, was not much different from the book itself, with the exception of fictional elements used to carry the story along. In 1990, Jan and Marjorie returned to Houston with minimum publicity, to a much improved atmosphere. Shortly afterwards he returned to the Quaker theme to write the last in the series, The Peculiar People in 1992. [3] This was followed by his last fully completed novel, The Outer Buoy: A Story of the Ultimate Voyage in 1994, which was once again a Martinus Harinxma novel, which expressed quite clearly Jan de Hartog's own fascination with becoming old, a fascination with inner explorations of the mind, and perhaps even a desire to rest. In 1996, Jan de Hartog was chosen to be honored as the annual "Special Guest" at the Netherlands Film Festival. Six years later in 2002 Jan de Hartog died at the age of 88. Appropriately, his ashes were taken to sea on an ocean-going tugboat, the SMITWIJS SINGAPORE, and scattered on the surface of the sea at position 52.02.5 N – 04.05.0 E at 13.10 hrs LT by his wife, Marjorie, and his son, Nick, while other family members spread flowers at the site. [6] A few years later, Marjorie de Hartog decided to collate and edit a short story that her husband had been working on some time ago, in the hope of releasing it in his memory. A View of the Ocean was published in 2007, and was the story, in essence, of Jan de Hartog's own mother's death, which reveals his first contact with Quakers. Media. Jan de Hartog wrote many of his plays, books, and magazine articles in Dutch. Some of his plays and books were adapted as movies. It is the intent of this section to document those of his works that were published in English (including some translated from the original Dutch versions by other parties). Books in English (incomplete) The Captain ISBN 0-7090-3110-6 The Commodore: A Novel of the Sea ISBN 0-06-039041-7 The Flight of the Henny The Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga ISBN 0-449-21773-6 The Centurion: A Novel ISBN 0-06-039094-8 The Lamb's War: A Novel ISBN 0-06- 010995-5 The Trail of the Serpent ISBN 0-06-039018-2 Star of Peace ISBN 0-06-039029-8 The Peculiar People ISBN 0-679-41636-6 The Outer Buoy: A Story of the Ultimate Voyage ISBN 0-679-43604-9 The Lost Sea ISBN 0-8488-0982-3 Distant Shore ISBN 0-8488-0981-5 The Inspector ISBN 0-88411-069-9 Spiral Road ISBN 0-88411-071-0 The Hospital The Little Ark A Sailor's Life Captain Jan (an English translation of Holland's Glorie ) ISBN 0-85617-979-5 The Children: a Personal Record for the Use of Adoptive Parents ISBN 0-241-01622-3 Stella (also published as The Key ) Waters of the New World: Houston to Nantucket (with illustrations by Jo Spier) The Sailing Ship (#2 of The Odyssey Library collection) (with illustrations by Peter Spier) The Call of the Sea A View of the Ocean (published in November 2007) ISBN 978-0-375-42470-0. Stories appearing in Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Mission to Borneo in Volume 30 - Summer 1957 Duel with a Witch Doctor in Volume 31 - Autumn 1957 The Artist in Volume 54 - Summer 1963 The Captain in Volume 68 - Winter 1967. Adaptations of his works. Movies. Based on the play of same name. Won Venice International Film Festival — Volpi Cup for Best Actress (Lilli Palmer) Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Cinematography — Black and white (Hal Mohr) Nominated for an Academy award for Best Cinematography (Hal Mohr) Based on the novel Stella with William Holden and Sophia Loren Won a British Academy Award for Best British Actor (Trevor Howard) Based on the novel of the same name. starring Rock Hudson and Burl Ives. Lisa (1962) - 1hr 52min - Directed by Philip Dunne. Based on the novel, The Inspector Released as The Inspector in the United Kingdom starring Dolores Hart, Stephen Boyd and Donald Pleasence Nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Picture - Drama" Based on the novel of the same name. Nominated for an Academy award for Best Song (Marsha Karlin and Fred Karlin) Television. The Fourposter (Play on TV) (1955) - 1hr 30min - Directed by Clark Jones. The Peaceable Kingdom : An American Saga , Том 1. Long indeed, I took a long time reading this saga and look forward to reading the part 2. T. Well written narrative and dialog. This story gave me a look at the otherside of Quakerism, political . Читать весь отзыв. LibraryThing Review. I read this book a long time ago, but loved it very much and have never forgotten it. I have read other novels by deHaartog, and he is such a good writer. At the beginning of the book, Margaret goes . Читать весь отзыв. The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan De Hartog. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American saga. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American saga. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American saga. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American saga. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum. 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Used - Softcover Condition: Fair. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. Store Stamped. ------(The first book in the Quakers series) --- This novel is the story of the passionate, flesh-and- blood men and women who began the Quaker movement in England in the 17th century and of those who settled in Philadelphia 100 years later. . .See photos for additional content. . . The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan De Hartog, First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. In this unique one-stop guide, cataloging expert Fritz provides the hands-on cross-references between AACR2 and MARC21 required fro easy online cataloging. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Book. The Peaceable Kingdom. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. The dust jacket is edge worn. Book. The Peaceable Kingdom. Hartog, Jan de. Published by Atheneum, 1971. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Dust jacket has some scuffing; Very Good condition. Front end page clipped; erase marks on following page. Splotch and spots on edge of pages. Very Good condition. Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga. de Hartog, Jan. Published by New York: Atheneum, 1972. 1st ed. [Stated]. Hardcover. 677 pages., 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A generational novel created out of Quaker history. Stated first edition. Green dyed top edge. VG/VG. Clean, tight, unmarked first printing. The Peaceable Kingdom; an American Saga. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1972. Used - Hardcover. Hard cover. First edition. vi, 677 p. 25 cm. Book Condition: Very good. DJ Condition: Very good. Very light foxing inside cover boards, outside page edges. Clean interior pages. Tight binding. Very good in very good dust jacket. THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM: An American Saga. De HARTOG, Jan. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Cream cloth binding with green title boxes with gold colored print on front and spine. Slight foxing spots on covers with darker line along top edges. Green head tint. Previous owner's note and label on front flyleaf. Sound and otherwise unmarked. DJ has shelfwear and is price clipped. 677 pages. Stated first. Size: 6 X 9 1/2. The Peaceable Kingdom. HARTOG, Jan de. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First edition. Minor pen marks in margins of a few pages. Edges of cloth cover lightly yellowed. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed. Very small tears to the dustwrapper corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. The Peaceable Kingdom. De Hartog, Jan. Published by London: Book Club Associates, 1972. Used - Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American saga. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Atheneum, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Peaceable Kingdom. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1972. Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa Contact seller. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st edition. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. Jacket is edge worn, a bit chipped and marked. Boards are edge worn, cocked and marked. Previous ownership inscription. Top stain. Minor marks on page edges. Aside from this, it is in very good condition, excellent binding. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The Peaceable Kingdom. De Hartog, Jan. Published by London: Book Club Associates, 1972. Used - Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga. Jan De Hartog. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1971. 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Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1972., 1972. Used - Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. [ix] + [681pp.] Minor ownership inscription and two marks to front f.e.p., original boards, d/w. slightly faded to spine and slightly rubbed to edges. US$9. The Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga. Jan De Hartog. Published by Fawcett: Crest, Greenwich, CT, 1973. Used - Softcover. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: slight spine lean and the backstrip is slightly concave and shows a few faint stress lines; very light wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; the binding is perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A carefully-read copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing moderate wear. Remains a sturdy, attractive reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.15 x 1.75 inches). 896 pages. Language: English. Weight: 17 ounces. First Edition Thus (1973); not directly stated, but impled. First published by Atheneum in 1971. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition Thus (1973); not directly stated, but impled. The Peaceable Kingdom. Jan De Hartog. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. Book has marks left from tape on front and back boards, and has some soiling to edges. Dust jacket has shelf wear and chipping to top and bottom with a tear at the top of the spine as well as yellowing on the inside. D/J has been price clipped and is protected in mylar. The Peaceable Kingdom. De Hartog, Jan. Published by Hamish Hamilton, UK, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 677 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hamish Hamilton, UK, 1972. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: Very Good book with Very Good dust jacket . Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chips and/or tears. The dust jacket has been price- clipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0241021863. ISBN/EAN: 9780241021866. Inventory No: 17050008. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale.