Physically and mentally he loomed up like a sort of headland — a great crag of basalt that no conceivable assault seemed able to touch. His predecessor, Frank Norris, was of much softer stuff. Norris, had he lived longer, would have been wooed and ruined,... The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness - Страница 113аутор(и): - 1923Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Henry Louis Mencken - 1924 - 312 страница
...of the man's massive immovability. Physically and mentally he loomed up like a sort of headland—a great crag of basalt that no conceivable assault seemed...succeed, but they all follow him in his fundamental purpose—to make the novel true. Dreiser added something, and here following him is harder: he tried... | |
| H. L. Mencken - 2000 - 396 страница
...was the storm center of a battle-royal that lasted nearly twenty years. The man himself was stolid, granitic, without nerves. Very little cunning was...succeed, but they all follow him in his fundamental purpose—to make the novel true. Dreiser added something, and here following is harder; he tried to... | |
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