Familiar Spanish Travels
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Every one will have his feeling about Moorish architecture; mine is that a little goes a long way, and that it is too monotonous to compete with the Gothic in variety, while it lacks the dignity of any form of the Greek or the Renaissance. -from "Sevillian Aspects and Incidents" William Dean Howells was one of the most influential critics and editors of the 19th century, his championing of writers such as Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, and Stephan Crane shaping the course of American literature. That powerful personality comes to the fore in this 1913 travelogue, in which Howells' j...
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- FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS
- ILLUSTRATED HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXIII COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY HARPER & BROTHERS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUBLISHED OCTOBER. 1913
- TO M. H.
- FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS
- I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES
- II. SAN SEBASTIAN AND BEAUTIFUL BISCAY
- III. BURGOS AND THE BITTER COLD OF BURGOS
- IV. THE VARIETY OF VALLADOLID
- V. PHASES OF MADRID
- VI. A NIGHT AND DAY IN TOLEDO
- VII. THE GREAT GRIDIRON OF ST. LAWRENCE
- VIII. CORDOVA AND THE WAY THERE
- IX. FIRST DAYS IN SEVILLE
- X. SEVILLIAN ASPECTS AND INCIDENTS
- XI. TO AND IN GRANADA
- XII. THE SURPRISES OF RONDA
- XIII. ALGECIRAS AND TARIFA
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