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... taken to Nebraska , where her father had bought a ranch . This move from the long - established pattern of life of Virginia to a prairie state not yet fenced and only recently abandoned by the Indian and the buffalo was the great ...
... taken to Nebraska , where her father had bought a ranch . This move from the long - established pattern of life of Virginia to a prairie state not yet fenced and only recently abandoned by the Indian and the buffalo was the great ...
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... taken for granted , for example , the inherent superiority of the American way of life or the infallible disinterestedness of Marxism , and he cries , ' This is none of I ' , knowing no longer who he is , and with relief accepts an ...
... taken for granted , for example , the inherent superiority of the American way of life or the infallible disinterestedness of Marxism , and he cries , ' This is none of I ' , knowing no longer who he is , and with relief accepts an ...
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... taken together no doubt account for the regularity with which re- viewers in the presence of their novels murmur ' James ' or ' Edith Wharton ' . Attractive writers though they are , this is very much to overpraise . Auchincloss , it ...
... taken together no doubt account for the regularity with which re- viewers in the presence of their novels murmur ' James ' or ' Edith Wharton ' . Attractive writers though they are , this is very much to overpraise . Auchincloss , it ...
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