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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The great American novel

"What Henry James and other early users of the term had in mind was broadly a book of national scope that cut across the disparate parts of the sprawling country"

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-great-american-novel-lawrence-buell/

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