ScoWer22 on Nostr: Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, & t Fitzgerald sought to write "the great American novel". ...

Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, & t Fitzgerald sought to write "the great American novel". Mind you these upstarts came in the wake of giants like Thoreau, Poe, Melville, & Twain. I won't berate them for ignoring The Illiad or The Odyssey (Homer) or great western European novelists in the centuries before them. But to me, the best book is one you read, re-read, kept thinking about, and sometimes return to. That's the Bible for many. I like Richard Wheeler's "Second Lives". About mining late 1800's.