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...plane reservation in one hand and a handful of snow in the other--there's the prospect that certain ones thirsty for sunkissed regions west may take an eastern holiday nevertheless. But take hope. For it was Mark Twain who said if you don't like Boston weather, just wait a minute, brother, and it'll change...
...others: Henry Raymond, founder of the N.Y. Times; Alfred Guernsey; Henry Mills Alden, sponsor of Mark Twain and Henry James. President editor: Historian Frederick Lewis Al len (Only Yesterday...
...older countries: a steady source of inspiration, a practical guide. The task was all the more difficult because it seemed to him that even the best of American writers had fallen so far short of the possibilities of their genius. As he worked on his biographies of Mark Twain and Henry James, finding more & more evidence of the personal tragedies of individual writers, and more & more signs of the faltering of their boldest ventures, Van Wyck Brooks produced studies of intellectual failure which were as terrifying to creative writers as the horror stories...
...1920s, his somber little critical masterpieces-The Ordeal of Mark Twain, The Pilgrimage of Henry James, America's Coming of Age-won him a measure of fame, a solid standing, a powerful influence with his contemporaries. But they left him profoundly dissatisfied with his own work and increasingly unhappy about it. In the mid-'20s his health and nerves broke down, and he spent the next four years in hospitals, a victim of the melancholy that had gripped and paralyzed so many American writers before...
...Adventures of Mark Twain (Fredric March, Alexis Smith; TIME...