American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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... Italy , at Fossalta di Piave , on July 8 , 1918 , and was decorated by the Italians for subsequent heroism . A doz- en operations were performed on his knee , and during his recuperation in Milan he unavail- ingly fell in love with a ...
... Italy , at Fossalta di Piave , on July 8 , 1918 , and was decorated by the Italians for subsequent heroism . A doz- en operations were performed on his knee , and during his recuperation in Milan he unavail- ingly fell in love with a ...
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... Italy with three young men❞ who " do everything they can to keep her from embarrassment or even consciousness , " one of whom marries her when they get to Venice . Howells took especial pleasure in writing Indian Summer , chiefly ...
... Italy with three young men❞ who " do everything they can to keep her from embarrassment or even consciousness , " one of whom marries her when they get to Venice . Howells took especial pleasure in writing Indian Summer , chiefly ...
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... Italian , reading volume after volume of travel adventures writ- ten by other men , and flirting with exotic women ... Italy to study painting . In Paris , he visited the tailors and the theater , and was thrilled to be accosted on the ...
... Italian , reading volume after volume of travel adventures writ- ten by other men , and flirting with exotic women ... Italy to study painting . In Paris , he visited the tailors and the theater , and was thrilled to be accosted on the ...
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