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by Sten Bodvar Liljegren, Liljegren, S. B. Published 1920 by C. W. K. Gleerup in Lund. Europe, In literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, America, Knowledge. Published 1971 by Haskell House in New York. Bibliography: p. -viii. Reprint of the 1920 ed. Series. Lunds universitets årsskrift, .

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The window-panes werebattered by the sleet; the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemedto be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces. A talliron railing protected them from the street, and on the other side ofthe railing an assemblage of Bostonians were trampling about in theliquid snow.

In the case of The Quiet American ethical ambivalence is built into the very foundation of the novel

In the case of The Quiet American ethical ambivalence is built into the very foundation of the novel. I spoke earlier of a calibrated moral system, and this reminds us of the careful, judicious James of The Europeans, but what a different job it is to place your people in a battlefield instead of a drawing room! You cannot be sure about anything on a battlefield. Greene was compulsively drawn to some of the messiest conflicts his century had seen, wars that people continued to fight long after the reasons to fight them had grown obscure.

Philip Horne has spent a decade looking at the thousands of James's letters in archives in the United States and Europe.

The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England. The novel first appeared as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly for July–October 1878. James made numerous minor revisions for the first book publication.

The first European settlers of North America wrote about their experiences starting in the 1600s

The first European settlers of North America wrote about their experiences starting in the 1600s. This was the earliest American literature: practical, straightforward, often derivative of literature in Great Britain, and focused on the future. Short stories: Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn (1880), The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (1899). Naturalism, like realism, was a literary movement that drew inspiration from French authors of the 19th century who sought to document, through fiction, the reality that they saw around them, particularly among the middle and working classes living in cities. Theodore Dreiser was foremost among American writers who embraced naturalism.

In addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays.

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The American’. In addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays. James alternated between America and Europe for the first twenty years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.