Richard Henry Dana

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Books by Richard Henry Dana

• Two Years Before the Mast (1840): mentions 5 books

Quotes from Richard Henry Dana's books, and about them

• Two Years Before the Mast on Robinson Crusoe: “Near this was a variety of huts or cottages, nearly an hundred in number, the best of them built of mud and white washed, but the greater part only Robinson Crusoe like--of posts and branches of trees.”
• Two Years Before the Mast on Mandeville, a Romance: “At last, when I thought that there were no more to be got, I found, at the bottom of old Schmidt's chest, "Mandeville, a Romance, by Godwin, in five volumes."”
• Two Years Before the Mast on Paul Clifford: “I accordingly overhauled the chests of the crew, but found nothing that suited me exactly, until one of the men said he had a book which "told all about a great highway-man," at the bottom of his chest, and producing it, I found, to my surprise and joy, that it was nothing else than Bulwer's Paul Clifford.”
• Two Years Before the Mast on Table Talk: “Then his lines to Mary, his address to the jackdaw, and a short extract from Table Talk;”
• Two Years Before the Mast on Erlking: “"Ille et nefasto" from Horace, and Goethe's Erl King.”

Authors Richard Henry Dana's books mention

• Daniel Defoe (1): Two Years Before the Mast mentions Robinson Crusoe
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1): Two Years Before the Mast mentions Paul Clifford
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1): Two Years Before the Mast mentions Erlking
• William Cowper (1): Two Years Before the Mast mentions Table Talk
• William Godwin (1): Two Years Before the Mast mentions Mandeville, a Romance