Discovery of Europe
The story of American experience in the old world
1947
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Livre de Philip Rahv · 1947 (États-Unis)
Genres : Anthologie, EssaiThis is a volume of American comment on Europe. From Benjamin Franklin, through Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, down to Vincent Sheean, Americans have been going back to Europe and discovering things about it that Europeans had not considered. Here is the irreverent filial eye fixed upon the maternal society-often seeing what Europe would hide. Sometimes these wrongway Columbuses were appalled and sometimes awed, always entertained and instructed, and for their compatriots their... Voir plus
