- Paperback: 326 pages
- Publisher: Forgotten Books (23 Mar 2010)
- ISBN-10: 1440058407
- ISBN-13: 978-1440058400
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 944,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I NEW ENGLAND AN AUTUMN IMPRESSION I CONSCIOUS that the impressions of the very first hours have always the value of their intensity, I shrink from wasting those that attended my arrival, my return after long years, even though they be out of order with the others that were promptly to follow and that I here gather in, as best I may, under a single head. They referred partly, these instant vibrations, to a past recalled from very far back; fell into a train of association that receded, for its beginning, to the dimness of extreme youth. One's extremest youth had been full of New York, and one was absurdly finding it again, meeting it at every turn, in sights, sounds, smells, even in the chaos of confusion and change; a process under which, verily, recognition became more interesting and more amusing in proportion as it became more difficult, like the spelling~ out of foreign sentences of which one knows but half the words. It was not, indeed, at Hoboken, on emergin
Table of Contents
I NEW ENGLAND: AN AUTUMN IMPRESSION I; II NEW YORK REVISITED 72; III NEW YORK AND THE HUDSON: A SPRING IMPRESSION 116; IV NEW YORK: SOCIAL NOTES ISS; V THE BOWERY AND THEREABOUTS 194; VI THE SENSE OF NEWPORT 209; VII BOSTON :u6; VIII CONCORD AND SALEM 256; IX PHILADELPHIA 273; X BALTIMORE 303; XI WASHINGTON 332; XII RICHMOND 365; XIII CHARLESTON • 395; XIV FLORIDA 422
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Table of Contents
I NEW ENGLAND: AN AUTUMN IMPRESSION I; II NEW YORK REVISITED 72; III NEW YORK AND THE HUDSON: A SPRING IMPRESSION 116; IV NEW YORK: SOCIAL NOTES ISS; V THE BOWERY AND THEREABOUTS 194; VI THE SENSE OF NEWPORT 209; VII BOSTON :u6; VIII CONCORD AND SALEM 256; IX PHILADELPHIA 273; X BALTIMORE 303; XI WASHINGTON 332; XII RICHMOND 365; XIII CHARLESTON • 395; XIV FLORIDA 422
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I purchased this text for a University seminar, and was disappointed to find that the book is incomplete. Of the 422 pages listed in the contents, only 314 are included; a quick flick through a library copy confirms that there are certainly pages missing. This should definitely be advertised as part of the book's description.
Incidentally, the publishers have the full e-book available via their website - for free!
Incidentally, the publishers have the full e-book available via their website - for free!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Great Sensibility
24 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
One of the great sensibilities of American Literature, self-exiled to the Continent, returns to peruse the great naturalistic theater of his nativity, conversing with apples, musing on the Civil War, and wondering where he would be if he had exiled himself in his own native land... had remained to register the Civilization of the Adolescence of the United States. This is the perfect bookend to "The Education of Henry Adams".
Great passages and moments abound. This is prose of such beauty and delicacy that it is like reading sculpture.
The Bernini of travel literature.
Great passages and moments abound. This is prose of such beauty and delicacy that it is like reading sculpture.
The Bernini of travel literature.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Style: Overblown Bombast. Content: None
6 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback
This will not be typical James-bashing. Lots of people like Jemes, and I am (albeit ambivalently) one of them. But THE AMERICAN SCENE reads as if it were written by Shakespeare's Polonius. It is verbose, abstract, repetitious, precious, and pedantic. Whenever he deigns to try, actually try, to describe a person, place, or thing, he inevitably gets it wrong. Most of the time, though, it is just James head-tripping as he moves from Pullman to Pullman, hotel to hotel, eventually coming to the (solipcistic) conclusion that America's very epicenter is Pullmans and hotels -- and, of course, that the two are the same thing. He is a little like Baudrillard touring the American West -- missing everything that's really THERE, while boring us to death with his trying-too-hard, impressionistic "sensibility." He is only interested in himself, in his "takes," and he is ludicrous in his constant lament that this particular subject (early twentieth-century America) isn't good enough for his talents. He is J. Alfred Prufrock staring in frightened disgust at "the people, my dear, the people" from his train window He is like the man in Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" who "rode over Connecticut in a glass coach [while] the only thing moving was the eye of the blackbird." Indeed. For James never really moves either. The only thing moving is his overheated free-associating mind and his hand as it cranks out ream after ream of contentless blithering.
6 of 20 people found the following review helpful
One terrible passage ruins this book for me
10 April 2006
Format:Paperback
James is a great literary virtuoso, in certain ways the most sophisticated and complex America has had. His intricate intelligence is complemented by an unequaled descriptive power, and a mastery of language, second to none. How difficult then to come across the passage which ruins this book for me. This is James description of the immigrant Jews on the East Side.It is the observation of the sterile aristrocatic owner of Anglo-Saxon civilization who looks with contempt and horror at the poor swarming sweatshop crowd threatening to steal his private inheritance from him.
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