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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
only hundreds with his voice. His simple formula included: first, some topical material, historical event, or current issue; second, characters and incidents selected directly from his personal observation or from newspapers; third, an abundance of nature descriptions with much praise of the rural virtues; and fourth, plots concerned almost invariably, and not very deviously, with the simultaneous pursuit of wives, fortunes, and salvation. Barriers burned away (1872), The opening of a Chestnut Burr (1874), and Without a home (1881) are said to have been his most widely read books. The greatest, however, and practically the ultimate victory over village opposition to the novel was won by Ben-Hur a tale of the Christ (1880), a book of larger pretension and broader scope than any of Roe's or Holland's modest narratives, the only American novel, indeed, which can be compared with Uncle Tom's cabin as a true folk possession. An edition numbering a million copies was ordered by a C
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
n the Crown, 465 On the Fens and Marshes of Rome, 446 On the nature and theory of the Greek accent, 462 On the necessity and means of making our national literature independent of that of great Britain, 448 On the price of corn and management of the poor, 428 On the State of public instruction in Germany, 408 On the storied Ohio, 165 On the town, 44 On Trail, 295 Onward, Christian soldiers, 500 Opatoshu, I., 606 Opdyke, G., 435 Open Court, the, 585 Opening of a Chestnut Burr, the, 74 Open Polar Sea, the, 167 Opinions on various subjects dedicated to the industrious Producers, 436 Opportunity, 58 Orations and addresses (Curtis), 488 Orbis Pictus, 391 Oregon Missions and travels over the Rocky Mountains in 1845–;46, 138 Oregon plan, 365 Oregon Trail, the, 135 Or et Fange, 593 Origin and history of the English language, the, 473 Origin and progress of the patrons of Husbandry, 356 Origin of species, 229 Origin of the Fremont