An Introduction to the Study of American Literature
The book An Introduction to the Study of American Literature was written by author Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 Here you can read free online of An Introduction to the Study of American Literature book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Introduction to the Study of American Literature a good or bad book?
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This, however, is what Francis Parkman did. When he was still but a boy in college he resolved to tell the story of the long struggle between the French and the English for the possession of North America. To this task he gave himself his whole life long ; and when the work was done at last, after the unhasting labor of nearly half a century, he was ready to die, being then about 210 FRANCIS PARKMAN 211 seventy years of age. And this singular success was won in the face of difficulties which wo...uld have discouraged any man who had not very unusual firmness of fiber. Francis Parkman was born in Boston on September i6, 1823. He belonged to what Dr. Holmes called the " Brahmin caste of New England," that is to say, his ances- tors had been men of education and character generation after generation. The family had endowed two professor- ships at Harvard College. In his boyhood Parkman's health was not robust ; and he was sent to live in the country on the edge of the wild tract known as Middlesex Fells.
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