“The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.”

Twice-Told Tales, Preface http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/tttpf.html (1851)

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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