 If I were asked to name three American books which have the possibility of a long, long life, I would say at once: The Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn, and The Country of the Pointed Firs.  The School Executive - Page 4131924Full view - About this book
 | Book collecting - 1925 - 914 pages
...bold to classify "The Country of the Pointed Firs" with "The Scarlet Letter" and "Huckleberry Finn" as "three American books which have the possibility of a long, long life ". The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Selected by Willa Gather. Houghton Mifllin Company. EA ROBINSON... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - 1924 - 336 pages
...is the beauty for which the Greek writers strove; it is certainly that for which Miss Jewett strove. If I were asked to name three American books which..."Huckleberry Finn," and "The Country of the Pointed Firs." I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely. The latter book seems to me fairly... | |
 | Willa Cather - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 156 pages
...is the beauty for which the Greek writers strove; it is certainly that for which Miss Jewett strove. If I were asked to name three American books which...Huckleberry Finn, and The Country of the Pointed Firs. I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely. The last book seems to me fairly... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 482 pages
...identified Huckleberry Finn and The Country of the Pointed Firs, along with The Scarlet Letter, as "the three American books which have the possibility of a long, long life" (NUF 58) — evokes two quite different versions of pastoral: the adventure literature of, for example,... | |
 | James Woodress - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 654 pages
...withdraw her preface. She did not have to. Gather's preface paid high tribute toJewett's best work: "If I were asked to name three American books which...once, The Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn, and The Gountry of the Pointed Firs. I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely." She... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...Cather and Wharton agreed in their admiration for James and Hawthorne, it is inconceivable that, if asked to name three American books "which have the possibility of a long, long life," Wharton would have followed up The Scarlet Letter, as Cather did, with "Huckleberry Finn, and The Country... | |
 | Elizabeth Ammons - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 249 pages
...mistake the book's controlling energy. Introducing the 1925 edition, she begins her concluding paragraph: "If I were asked to name three American books which...'Huckleberry Finn,' and 'The Country of the Pointed Firs.' "22 The grouping is not as eccentric as it may look. Although these three books differ in many ways,... | |
 | June Howard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 144 pages
...including the claim that The Country of the Pointed Firs, The Scarlet Letter, and Huckleberry Finn are the "three American books which have the possibility of a long, long life" (rpt. in The Country of the Pointed Firs and Others Stories [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956], p.... | |
 | Michael Davitt Bell - Education - 1993 - 260 pages
...including the claim that The Country of the Pointed Firs, The Scarlet Letter, and Huckleberry Finn are the "three American books which have the possibility of a long, long life" (reprinted in The Country of the Pointed Firs and Others Stories [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956],... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 598 pages
...Country of the Pointed Firs, has such lasting value for Gather that she singled it out as a masterpiece: "If I were asked to name three American books which...'Huckleberry Finn' and 'The Country of the Pointed Firs.' I can think of no others that confront time and change so securely." Most critics agree that Sarah... | |
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