- American literature, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Puritans
Joseph Conrad.--Theodore Dreiser.--James Huneker.--Puritanism as a literary force.
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Cool, spare, character-led and prestige.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- H. L. Mencken
- First published
- 1917
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Reprint Services Corporation, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, A. A. Knopf
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781432610814
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First sentence
“"UNDER all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy, a sense of seeking and not finding . . ."”
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