| Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship Contributor(s): Howells, William Dean (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798596628111 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Literary Criticism | American - General - History |
| Dewey: 818 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.11 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before I began the papers which make up this vo-lume, I had meant to write of literary history in New Eng-land as I had known it in the lives of its great exemplars during the twenty-five years I lived near them. In fact, I had meant to do this from the time I came among them; but I let the days in which I almost constantly saw them go by without record save such as I carried in a memory retentive, indeed, beyond the common, but not so full as I could have wished when I began to invoke it for my work. Still, upon insistent appeal, it responded in suffici-ent abundance; and, though I now wish I could have re-membered more instances, I think my impressions were accurate enough. I am sure of having tried honestly to impart them in the ten years or more when I was desulto-rily endeavoring to share them with the reader. |