Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells · English
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Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells · English
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I. In a certain sort fragile is written all over our colony; as far as the visible body of it is concerned it is inexpressibly perishable; a fire and a high wind could sweep it all away; and one of the most American of all American things is the least fitted among them to survive from the present to the future, and impart to it the significance of what may soon be a "portion and parcel" of our extremely forgetful past. It is also in a supremely transitional moment: one might say that
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