Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 / 2008-07-26 00:00:00
EBOOK THE CONFESSIONS OF A SUMMER ***
Produced by David Widger
LITERATURE AND LIFE--The Confessions of a Summer Colonist
by William Dean Howells
CONFESSIONS OF A SUMMER COLONIST
The season is ending in the little summer settlement on the Down East
coast where I have been passing the last three months, and with each
loath day the sense of its peculiar charm grows more poignant.
A prescience of the homesickness I shall feel for it when I go already
begins to torment me, and I find myself wishing to imagine some form of
words which shall keep a likeness of it at least through the winter; some
shadowy semblance which I may turn to hereafter if any chance or change
should destroy or transform it, or, what is more likely, if I should
never come back to it. Perhaps others in the distant future may turn to
it for a glimpse of our actual life in one of its most characteristic
phases; I am sure that in the distant present there are many millions of
our own inlanders to whom it would be altogether strange.
I.
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