TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Our Hemingway man: Hemingway and me: a rather long story -- The end of compendium reviewing -- I dismember Papa -- Locked in the vault -- 2. Second thoughts: Centennial, or The Hawthorne caper -- Melville's Eden, or Typee recharted -- Hawthorne's gables ungarbled -- Huckleberry Finn: the little lower layer -- American fiction, American life -- 3. American myth: The mother of us all: Pocahontas -- Fallen from time: Rip Van Winkle.