The Delectable Mountains

1927. Struthers Burt's celebrity as a novelist, which came with the publication of Interpreter's House and grew with The Delectable Mountains; his distinction as a poet and essayist, often overshadowed the fact that he was first celebrated as a writer of stories. He was also a Wyoming dude rancher and instrumental in the creation of the Grand Teton National Park. The novel About rooms there is a pleasant unchangeableness very different from the unstable permutations of mankind. They become shabby, to be sure, if not properly kept up, and they grow dusty, if not properly swept, but a little due attention will preserve them indefinitely, and even redecoration and new furniture does not alter their shape or inner character. They acquire, therefore, as time goes on, more than anything else in the world, perhaps, an invisible patina of memories, seeming to keep a trace of all the personalities that have gone in and out of them, and an impressionistic record of all the scenes that have been enacted within their walls. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.