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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... women and little girls have be- gun to till our lands , and they get on not badly . You did right to send back to Europe that Dr. Crumerus who was so successful in curing dys- entery . Don't bother with a man who is subject to looseness ...
... women and little girls have be- gun to till our lands , and they get on not badly . You did right to send back to Europe that Dr. Crumerus who was so successful in curing dys- entery . Don't bother with a man who is subject to looseness ...
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... women's college not altogether unlike Sarah Lawrence College , and its pictures of the academic and personal life of ... little like his attitude toward unhappy children and a little like Sophocles ' toward " the Moth- ers " : awe ...
... women's college not altogether unlike Sarah Lawrence College , and its pictures of the academic and personal life of ... little like his attitude toward unhappy children and a little like Sophocles ' toward " the Moth- ers " : awe ...
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... Little Lady of the Big House . New York : Macmillan , 1916 . The Turtles of Tasman . New York : Macmillan , 1916 ... Women . New York : Macmillan , 1906 . Theft . New York : Macmillan , 1910 . The Acorn - Planter . New York : Macmillan ...
... Little Lady of the Big House . New York : Macmillan , 1916 . The Turtles of Tasman . New York : Macmillan , 1916 ... Women . New York : Macmillan , 1906 . Theft . New York : Macmillan , 1910 . The Acorn - Planter . New York : Macmillan ...
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