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First Page of Text in the [1907] Collins' Clear-Type Press Reprint

First Page of Text of the [1907] Collins' Clear-Type Press Reprint

First Page of Text of the 1893 T. Nelson & Sons Reprint

First Page of Text in the [1900] Hurst & Co. Reprint, Version 1

First Page of Text in the [1900] W.B. Conkey Reprint

First Page of Text in the [1896] The Grand Colosseum Warehouse Co. "Complete Edition" Reprint

The Southern Literary Messenger,
April 1854

Reviewer discusses the growth of literature for "juveniles" and its generic potential; praises Warner's contributions to the field

Subjects: Literary Field, Postive Stance

Identifier: rev60

The North American Review,
January 1853

Reviewer investigates the current state of the novel as compared with its eighteenth-century forebears; considers contemporary tendencies toward moral argumentation; expresses mixed feelings about the genre's evolution; discusses The Wide, Wide World, Queechy, and Dollars and Cents as positive examples of a new class of American novel, "having a character of their own--humane, religious, piquant, natural, national"

Subjects: Literary Field, Mixed Stance

Identifier: rev33

The Independent,
May 6, 1852

Reviewer of Warner's Queechy discusses the fame of its author and the literary success of The Wide, Wide World

Subjects: Authorship/Celebrity, Postive Stance

Identifier: rev18

The National Era,
October 16, 1851

Reviewer praises The Wide, Wide World for its verisimilitude and its heroine's religious journey; appreciates the novel's ending

Subjects: Dedicated Review, Postive Stance

Identifier: rev11

Godey's Lady's Book,
September 1851

Reviewer appreciates The Wide, Wide World, especially as a book for children; mistakenly exposes the novel's Scottish authorship ("appears as an American book, but it is utterly deficient in American spirit")

Subjects: Dedicated Review, Mixed Stance

Identifier: rev10

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