[Scribner's] Stories by Modern American Authors w/ Direct link technology ( A Classic Detective story)

by Various Authors, New Century Books (Editor)

Overview

The foregoing disquisition may seem uncalled for by such rigid moralists as have made up their minds not to regard detective, or riddle stories, as any part of respectable literature at all. With that sect, I announce at the outset that I am entirely out of sympathy. It is not needed to compare "The Gold Bug" with "Paradise Lost"; nobody denies the superior literary stature of the latter, although, as the Oxford Senior Wrangler objected, "What does it prove?" But I appeal to Emerson, who, in his poem of "The Mountain and the Squirrel," states the nub of the argument, with incomparable felicity, as follows:--you will recall that the two protagonists had a difference, originating in the fact that the former called the latter "Little Prig." Bun made a very sprightly retort, summing up to this effect:--
"Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013144187
Publisher:	New Century Books
Publication date:	07/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	319 KB