 The book was the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. There was a consciousness of this in the welcome that was given it— a satisfaction in the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to...  France and the Americas [3 Volumes]: Culture, Politics, and Historyuredili: - 2005 - 1297 straniPredogled ni na voljo - O knjigi
 | Henry James - 1879 - 206 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...best of it was that the thing was absolutely American ; it belonged to the soil, to the air ; it came out of the very heart of New England. It is beautiful,... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...best of it was that the thing was absolutely American ; it belonged to the soil, to the air ; it came out of the very heart of New England. It is beautiful,... | |
 | Edwin Monroe Bacon - 1902 - 300 strani
...idea of America having produced a novel .that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it ... And the best of it was that the thing was absolutely American ; it belonged to the soil, to the air ; it came out of the heart of New England.' " The Hawthornes... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1916 - 378 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...of it was that the thing was absolutely American; it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England.—HENRY JAMES, JR.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1919 - 318 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...of it was that the thing was absolutely American; it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England." * No commentator... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 360 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...of it was that the thing was absolutely American; it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England. 10 No commentator... | |
 | William Chislett - 1928 - 236 strani
...unappreciative of the Master's real service to literature in, say, The Scarlet Letter, — "something that might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in (quality as anything that had been received" ; the best of it being "that the thing was absolutely American." James remarks that Hawthorne's entries... | |
 | Henry James - 1986 - 524 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...of it was that the thing was absolutely American; it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England. It is beautiful,... | |
 | Elmer Kennedy-Andrews - 2000 - 224 strani
...America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something that might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in quality...and the best of it was that the thing was absolutely American.1 D We know something of the circumstances surrounding the writing of the book from Hawthorne's... | |
 | Rodrigo Andrés González, Teresa Requena Pelegrí - 2007 - 141 strani
...the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite...of it was that the thing was absolutely American; it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England" (Henry James. Hawthorne).... | |
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