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... strike one as a triumph of honesty , and very little else . It is questionable whether he ever wrote a single sentence ... strikes the reader about the world Dreiser describes - and it is true of it whether it is the Philadelphia of a ...
... strike one as a triumph of honesty , and very little else . It is questionable whether he ever wrote a single sentence ... strikes the reader about the world Dreiser describes - and it is true of it whether it is the Philadelphia of a ...
Page 160
... strike . Cantwell does not , of course , neglect to use the Fourth of July celebrations to point the contrast between ... strikes one now about The Land of Plenty is its quality as a heroic novel . Cantwell has said that he was moved to ...
... strike . Cantwell does not , of course , neglect to use the Fourth of July celebrations to point the contrast between ... strikes one now about The Land of Plenty is its quality as a heroic novel . Cantwell has said that he was moved to ...
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... strikes one as a construction from intellectual premises rather than a creation of the imagination . Every so often in Dead Man Leading , however , Pritchett allows the comic writer in him to take over , and then one has , in contrast ...
... strikes one as a construction from intellectual premises rather than a creation of the imagination . Every so often in Dead Man Leading , however , Pritchett allows the comic writer in him to take over , and then one has , in contrast ...
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