 No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...  Macmillan's Magazine - Side 237redigeret af - 1904Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 sider
...clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. 'No author,' he says, 'can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily' (it must and shall be happily) 'the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,... | |
 | Robert Crunden - 1998 - 388 sider
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 | David Laskin - 1994 - 488 sider
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 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 sider
...blandness that Nathaniel Hawthorne, looking for materials for his novels, complained of his country: "there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no...common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight. . . ,"18 The most recent scholarship places beside that plaint a sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century... | |
 | Tony Tanner, Patricia Crick - 1984 - 212 sider
...in the lack of materials'. James quotes him to this effect: No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...daylight as is happily the case with my dear native land. James was determined to avoid that 'lack'. He had, after all, only recently decided to settle in London... | |
 | Malcolm Bradbury - 1995 - 538 sider
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