A Down-East Yankee from the District of Maine (John Neal)
by Daggett, Windsor
- Used
- Condition
- VG PB
- Seller
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Sebago, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Portland, ME: A. J. Huston. VG PB. 1920. John Neal's parents were Quakers, his father a school teacher who died within a month of Neal's birth. He became the most . colorful and controversial of Portland's literary figures. Not meeting success in law or trade, self-educated, Neal turned to literature and became a prolific writer. In England where he spent several years, he was considered the most original and arresting American writer of his day. He wrote an autobiography, Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life, two definitive works about his beloved Portland, several novels, an epic poem, literary criticism, and innumerable articles. His best writing was vigorous and dashing, his worst long-winded and disorganized. He said of his own novel Logan that it should be taken as people take opium, "A grain may exhilarate - more may stupefy - much will be death." Edge wear, corner creases, slight discoloration to back cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS047325I
- Title
- A Down-East Yankee from the District of Maine (John Neal)
- Author
- Daggett, Windsor
- Illustrator
- Frontis of Neal
- Book Condition
- Used - VG PB
- Publisher
- A. J. Huston
- Place of Publication
- Portland, ME
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- John Neal's parents were Quakers, his father a school teacher who died, within a month of Neal's birth. He became the most, John Neal, Maine
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Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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Sebago, Maine
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