![]() ![]() 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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