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... English ? The commonsense answer is that he is both ; his novels belong to both literatures . Even so , the English reader tends to forget that James was an American before he was English and that Hawthorne was his literary ancestor no ...
... English ? The commonsense answer is that he is both ; his novels belong to both literatures . Even so , the English reader tends to forget that James was an American before he was English and that Hawthorne was his literary ancestor no ...
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The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. fiction . It is not a narrow one ; and since the novel is anyway an inter- national form , the English novelist may derive in part from traditions of the ...
The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. fiction . It is not a narrow one ; and since the novel is anyway an inter- national form , the English novelist may derive in part from traditions of the ...
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The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. the preoccupation was is suggested by the publication in 1935 of Wilder's Heaven's My Destination and in 1937 of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not , novels ...
The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. the preoccupation was is suggested by the publication in 1935 of Wilder's Heaven's My Destination and in 1937 of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not , novels ...
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