![]() ![]() The Springfield Republican judged it to be no worse than ''a gross trifling with every fine feeling. Melville's Quakers are wretched dolts and drivellers and his mad captain is a monstrous bore.''īy this measure, ''Huckleberry Finn'' (published 100 years ago this week in London and two months later in America) gets off lightly. ![]() ''Show me one page,'' says The Odessa Courier, ''that contains an idea.'' ''Moby-Dick'' was incinerated: ''Graphic descriptions of a dreariness such as we do not remember to have met with before in marine literature''. Is there a sweeter tonic for the doldrums than old reviews of great novels? In 19th-century Russia, ''Anna Karenina'' was received with the following: ''Vronsky's passion for his horse runs parallel to his passion for Anna''. ![]()
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