A Brief Handbook of American AuthorsHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 188 Seiten |
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Seite 188 - Lounsbury's book is an admirable specimen of literary biography. . . . We can recall no recent addition to American biography in any department which is superior to it. It gives the reader not merely a full account of Cooper's literary career, but there is mingled with this a sufficient account of the man himself apart from his books, and of the period in which he lived, to keep alive the interest from the first word to the last. — New York Evening Post. "MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI.
Seite 77 - THE SCARLET LETTER. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
Seite 83 - The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ; The Professor at the Breakfast Table...
Seite 185 - J. Fenimore Cooper. By PROF. TR LOUNSBURY. Margaret Fuller Ossoli. By TW HIGGINSON. Ralph Waldo Emerson. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Edgar Allan Poe.
Seite 185 - EDITED BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. A series of biographies of distinguished American authors, having all the special interest of biography, and the larger interest and value of illustrating the different phases of American literature, the social, political, and moral influences which have moulded these authors and the generations to which they belonged.
Seite 102 - The Seaside and the Fireside," 1850; "The Golden Legend," 1851; "The Song of Hiawatha," 1855; "The Courtship of Miles Standish...