Remembrance Rock.
by Sandburg, Carl
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had announced, in 1941, a film American Cavalcade that was to star Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, playing husband-and-wife teams from different periods of American history. The original treatment was rejected, and in 1943, the studio arranged with Sandburg to use the idea and then pre-purchased the film rights. Charles Poore noted in his review of the work, "It is no great shakes as a novel and quite a great shakes as a book on the American destiny. Its faults and its excellences are all on what you might call a quietly stupendous scale... In the end, of course, he succeeds only in saying in half a million words or so what Lincoln suggested in the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address. But that's enough, isn't it?" Perry Miller remarked, "[It] is not really a novel; it is the chant of an antique Bard who fills out the beat with stereotypes and repetitions.
Synopsis
A monumental novel that follows the growth of the American dream through more than three centuries. A saga, chronicle, and miscellany on folk themes, it is Sandburg's passionate testament of American life.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127433
- Title
- Remembrance Rock.
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- carl-sandburg-first-edition-signed, Remembrance Rock First Edition
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Palm Beach, Florida
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