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The Cliff-Dwellers
A Novel
By Henry B. Fuller
First published in 1893 by Harper Brothers
Republished in 1968 by The Gregg Press Incorporated 171 East Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Copyright 1968 by The Gregg Press, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-23721
Printed in United States of America
AMERICANS IN FICTION
In the domain of literature the play may once have been the chief abstract and chronicle of the times, but during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the novel has usurped the chief place in holding the mirror up to the homely face of society. On this account, if for no other, the Gregg Press series of reprints of American fiction merits the attention of all students of Americana and of librarians interested in building up adequate collections dealing with the social and literary history of the United States. Most of the three score and ten novels or volumes of short stories included in the series enjoyed considerable fame in their day but have been so long out of print as to be virtually unobtainable in the original editions.
Included in the list are works by writers not presently fashionable in critical circles but nevertheless well known to literary historians among them Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Gilmore Simms. A substantial element in the list consists of authors who are known especially for their graphic portrayal of a particular American setting, such as Gertrude Atherton (California), Arlo Bates (Boston), Alice Brown (New England), Edward Eggleston (Indiana), Mary Wilkins Freeman (New England), Henry B. Fuller