- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Dec 9 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684866021
- ISBN-13: 978-0684866024
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 630 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #598,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With a new introduction by the author, this edition of a 1950s classic follows a teacher on his quest to reach a group of violent, rebellious New York City teenagers.
About the Author
Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award-nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter -- including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a 50th anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005.
Visit www.edmcbain.com.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
a classic that doesnt wear the turns of time,
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This review is from: The Blackboard Jungle (Classic Ed): A Novel (Hardcover)
i had a tough time with this book and put it down halfway thru -- possibly as a result of having seen and read TO SIR WITH LOVE and i enjoyed that story more than this one. This story just seems too outdated and non-relevant to me today.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read One, Read the Other, for an Educational Update!,
By F. E. Mazur (Lexington, KY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Blackboard Jungle (Classic Ed): A Novel (Hardcover)
Published in 1954, Evan Hunter's novel is set in an urban vocational school of all boys. Today, almost fifty years later, it remains not just an excellent read, but also a worthwhile one-especially when it is read in conjunction with SPINE, a more contemporary novel of teachers struggling with students and the school system of an isolated rural town. In the latter work-a creation of this reviewer-the power and authority of the teacher in the classroom has been virtually eliminated (though seldom admitted), and no administrator would ever utter the words that Hunter's principal stresses to his faculty: "The teacher is boss, remember that!" Nor would those same administrators of today play the hardball of the JUNGLE's head man and insist on payment by parents for the destruction of school property by their sons and daughters. And how many modern-day parents are there who don't view the entire school as something they cannot entirely trust? Who may even regard it less a friend to their progeny and more an enemy? These and other contrasts are often starkly apparent if one reads both novels. Just as are other items that are the same today as they were midway through the previous century. In fact, one of these may even help to determine when teachers began to lose the authority of their position. Again, consider Hunter's school principal. When a student levels a charge at his English teacher, the story's protagonist, principal Small accuses his employee Rick Dadier of being a racial bigot, and he does so without first listening to the other side of the incident. Read one, read the other. Gain a little more insight about the world of education.
5.0 out of 5 stars
the urban terrain of a man's first job,
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This review is from: The Blackboard Jungle (Classic Ed): A Novel (Hardcover)
This book centers of Richard Dadier, a man accepting his first teaching assignment --- an English class -- at a tough Brooklyn technical high school where the kids just want to get enough skills so when they turn 16 they can get a job. His wife is pregnant and they live in a little flat nearby.Dadier and his fellow rookie teachers' enthusiasm rapidly fades as they face the hardened street youth who make up their classes. But Dadier sees something in the boy who gives him the most trouble, that makes him believe his time in the blackboard jungle is worthwhile no matter what.
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