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The American Spirit in LiteratureA chronicle of great interpreters. E-book. Formato EPUB
Bliss Perry
edizioni GAEditori collana , 2023
An extraordinary piece of American history."We are but strangers in an inn, but passengers in a ship," said Roger Williams. This sense of the transiency of human effort, the perishable nature of human institutions, was quick in the consciousness of the gentleman adventurers and sober Puritan citizens who...
The Amateur Spirit. E-book. Formato PDF
Bliss Perry
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The half dozen essays that are printed in this volume have sufficient unity, I hope, to justify their publication as a book. The emotions of the author who discovers that he has produced a treatise when he intended only a series of essays may be likened to the surprise of the child who observes that his blocks, piled...
A Study of Prose Fiction. E-book. Formato PDF
Bliss Perry
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
On the contrary, wherever an allu sion to the writings of masters like Scott and Thackeray and Hawthorne would serve the purpose, I have given myself the pleasure of such illustration, knowing that their books will continue to be read long after the novels of the year have faded out of memory.