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The most popular book in America.
Within eight months after publication it had reached its two
hundred and fiftieth thousand. The most American of recent novels,
it has indeed been hailed as the long looked for "American novel."
William Dean Howells says of it: "I have read 'Eben Holden' with a
great joy in its truth and freshness. You have got into your book
a kind of life not in literature before, and you have got it there
simply and frankly. It is 'as pure as water and as good as bread.'"
Edmund Clarence Stedman says of it: "It is a forest-scented,
fresh-aired, bracing, and wholly American story of country and town
life."