The Landlord at Lion's Head — Volume 1
William Dean Howells · English
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The Landlord at Lion's Head — Volume 1
William Dean Howells · English
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Part I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on the western shore of lake Champlain in the summer of 1891. Across the water in the State of Vermont I had constantly before my eyes a majestic mountain form which the earlier French pioneers had named "Le Lion Couchant," but which their plainer-minded Yankee success
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