Douglas Duane: A Romance

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1887
 

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Página 14 - The object of this series is not merely to give a number of unconnected narratives of men in American political life, but to produce books which shall, when taken together, indicate the lines of political thought and development in American history...
Página 6 - The story deals with the living forces and events of to-day, and is one of the most vital and strong and keenly interesting of late novels.
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Página 689 - An experience must lie in my mind a certain time before I can put it upon paper, — say from three to six months. If there is anything in it, it will ripen and mellow in that time. I rarely take any notes, and I have a very poor memory, but rely upon the affinity of my mind for a certain order of truths or observations. What is mine will stick to me, and what is not will drop off". When I returned from England after a three months...
Página 670 - It is a pleasant memory that my father lived to see me earning a hundred dollars a night and admitted, with a grave twinkle in his eye, that, having looked the matter over from a non-agricultural stand-point, he had concluded there was more in me than he had supposed.
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Página 14 - Fair God' is one of the most powerful historical novels we have ever read. The scene where in the sunrise Montezuma reads his fate, the dance-scene, and the entry of the Spaniards to the capital, are drawn in a style of which we think few living writers capable ; and the battles are Homeric in their grandeur.
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