“I believe it is the human being's capacity for dreaming, his unwillingness to accept the gray wall of facts as his prison, his power of pulling down the blinds on present facts and sallying forth to seek the adventure of the unknown and unrealized, that is the ticket to his redemption.”
In the vein of The Importance of Living, Yutang turns his searching eye on American writing, from pre-revolutionary times to now, to draw Chinese values from what is good and true and beautiful in America.
Author: Lin Yutang
Title: Lin Yutang on The Widsom of America
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: The John Day Company, 1950
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 462p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, chipping, rubbing to surfaces and sunning to spine—in new protector. Boards and spine clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages toned.
Comments: Handsome copy
