 I impelled to decline those overtures upon the ground that my new book possessing unquestionable novelty, as regards my former ones, — treating of utterly new scenes & characters ; — and, as I believe, very much more calculated for popularity than...  Reading Melville's Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities - Strana 177autor/autoři: Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker - 2007 - 240 str.Omezený náhled - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Herman Melville - 1988 - 532 str.
...it was "very much more calculated for popularity" than any of his books since Typee and Omoo. It was "a regular romance, with a mysterious plot to it,...representing a new & elevated aspect of American life." 12 At the same time, in his private view, it was a profound psychological analysis of the blighted... | |
 | Helmbrecht Breinig - 1984 - 436 str.
...novelty, as regards my former ones, treating of utterly new scenes & characters; - and, as I beleive, very much more calculated for popularity than anything...— being a regular romance, with a mysterious plot tp it, & stirring passions at work, and withall, representing a new & elevated aspect of American life... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1072 str.
...as regards my former ones, — treating of utterly new scenes & characters; — and, as I beleive, very much more calculated for popularity than anything...representing a new & elevated aspect of American life .... I trust that our connection will thus be made to continue, and that on the new field of productions,... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 str.
...novelty, as regards my former ones,—treating of utterly new scenes & characters;—and, as I beleive, very much more calculated for popularity than anything you have yet published of mine—being a regular romance, with a mysterious plot to it, & stirring passions at work, and withall,... | |
 | William Charvat - 1992 - 356 str.
...in comparison with] my former ones, treating of utterly new scenes & characters; and, as I believe, very much more calculated for popularity than anything...representing a new & elevated aspect of American life. ..." The implication of the word "regular" and emphasis on "plot" indicate the area of his compromise... | |
 | Nancy Fredricks - 1995 - 174 str.
...regards my former ones" and treats "of utterly new scenes & characters." He assures Bentley that it is "very much more calculated for popularity than anything you have yet published of mine—being a regular romance, with a mysterious plot to it, & stirring passions at work, and withall,... | |
 | William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 str.
...professional writer on the very terms he mocked in Pierre. He misrepresented the book spectacularly as being "very much more calculated for popularity than anything you have yet published of mine" (Letters 150), but he also tried to dissociate himself from the novel by suggesting that it be published... | |
 | Christopher Sten - 1996 - 388 str.
...huckstering letter in which he rejected his British publisher's financial terms, "my new book [is]... very much more calculated for popularity than anything you have yet published of mine—being a regular romance, with a mysterious plot to it, & stirring passions at work, and withall,... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 str.
...that his new effort, "a regular romance, with a mysterious plot to it & strong passions," was surely "very much more calculated for popularity than anything you have yet published of mine." Indeed, Melville thought that they might as well make a fresh start with so fresh a novel, and suggested,... | |
 | Samuel Otter - 1999 - 390 str.
...Bentley, the prospective British publisher of Pierre, Melville perversely insisted that his book was "very much more calculated for popularity than anything...representing a new & elevated aspect of American life." See Melville, Correspondence, 226. Melville does not seem to have considered actual letters to be vehicles... | |
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