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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gecond and third had Germanisms and Italianisms, and all other uu- realisms. Your book will do more to take away the reproach from your great and growing nation than many platform agitations and speechifyiugs. Here there is but one opinion about it. Lord Carlisle (late Mor- peth) assured me that he believed the book, independent of its artistic merit (of which hereafter), calculated to produce immense good, and he can speak better concerning it than I can, for I pay you a compliment in saying that I have actually not read it through. It is too painful, ? I cannot bear the sight of misery and wrong that I can Jo nothing to alleviate. But I will read it through and reread it in due time, though when I have done so, I shall have nothing more to say than what every one ays now, that it is perfect. I cannot resist transcribing a few lines which I received this morning from an excellent critic: To my mind it is the greatest novel ever written, and though it will seem strange, it reminded me in a lower sphere more of Shakespeare than anything modern I have ever read; not in the style, nor in the humor, nor in the pathos, ? though Eva set me a crying worse than Cordelia did at sixteen, ? but in the many-sidedness, and, above all, in that marvellous clearness of insight and outsight, which makes it seemingly impossible for her to see any one of her characters without showing him or her at once as a distinct man or woman different from all others. I have a debt of personal thanks to you for the book, also, from a most noble and great woman, my own mother, a West-Indian, who in gret sickness and sadness read your book with delighted tears. What struck her was the way in which you, first of all writers, she said, had dived down into the depths of the negro heart, and brought ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459008205 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459008200 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $27.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 430 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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