Reception
A number of famous readers have commented on the novel. The St. Petersburg Times noted that “News reports said that bought two classics from, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and John Steinbeck’s The Red Pony.” In an interview with Eric Clapton, Billboard complimented the novel by stating that “The Red Pony, John Steinbeck, wrenching story of adolescent initiation into the world of death, birth, and disappointment.”
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)