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... novelist has come to his subject - America or some aspect of America ― with a pattern in his mind of what life in America should be which he has to set against the actualities of American life in order to judge them . Dreiser is an ...
... novelist has come to his subject - America or some aspect of America ― with a pattern in his mind of what life in America should be which he has to set against the actualities of American life in order to judge them . Dreiser is an ...
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... novelist is free . All the same , the English novelist gains much from the tradition of which he is , willy - nilly , a part . He can see himself as a member of a body of craftsmen whose existence goes relatively far back in time ...
... novelist is free . All the same , the English novelist gains much from the tradition of which he is , willy - nilly , a part . He can see himself as a member of a body of craftsmen whose existence goes relatively far back in time ...
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... novelist . There , he is half a great novelist . But Appointment in Samarra remains his best novel . His work , 10 North Frederick ( 1955 ) , for example , which again is set in Gibbsville , still has a strong sociological or ...
... novelist . There , he is half a great novelist . But Appointment in Samarra remains his best novel . His work , 10 North Frederick ( 1955 ) , for example , which again is set in Gibbsville , still has a strong sociological or ...
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