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The Coast of Bohemia

Thomas Nelson Page

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .BR> Their melody so fine and clear,
One had to bend his ear to hear,
Or else the music well might pass
For zephyrs whispering in the grass.

I once might see the fairies dance
A-circle in their meadow-haunts,
Soft-tapered by the new-moon's glance:
Their airy feet in crystal shoon
Made twinklings neath the silver moon.
Such witchery, but that 't was seen,
Might well have been the dew-drops' sheen.

I've wandered far yond summer seas,
Where Music dwells mid harmonies
That well the Seraphim might please;
But never more I catch, ah me!
The fairies' silvery melody—
Their crystal twinkling on the moonlit lea.




AMERICA: GREETING

I have journeyed the spacious world over,
And here to thy sapphire wide gate,
America, I, thy True Lover
Return now, exalted, elate,
As an heir who r. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I am rather surprised that this novel by Howells is not discussed that often in the current canon of American Literature. In it, Howells seems to be taking a pro-feminist approach to his main character. Howells was the primary advocate for the turn in American literature towards Realism and away fro

William Dean Howells, one of the greats of American writing of the first part of the twentieth century. Biography, literary criticism, art criticism, novels and short essays on miscellaneous subjects all came from his pen, but one of his early novels, “The Coast of Bohemia” is not representative of

A novel with a very promising beginning that putters out about halfway through. This realistic story from the 1890s is about a provincial young woman who wants to go to New York and become an art student. The depictions, early in the novel, of her art school, the social life there, the people she me

Poetry by an author known for prose

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