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Just purchased, looks promising. It's amazing to me that Irving, the literary lion of his day, is now neglected while Melville, who went to his death unremembered, is today regarded as our greatest novelist. I have written about both of them in a two
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John Thorn said:
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Couple of hundred pages in ... and it is indeed as wonderful as, forty years ago in grad school for English Lit, I expected it to be. Time was that this was on the small universal bookshelf--everyone with a pretension to culture had to read it. No lo
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John Thorn said:
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Too early to comment on the quality of the book, but its premise is intriguing: that the tall-tale tradition, embracing lying, stealing, and cheating, has always been America's national pastime, and this truth derives from our long love affair with f
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