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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... Street , finished in Washington early in the summer of 1920 and published in the fall of that year . Now the apprenticeship was abruptly ended , and ended in a positive storm of vilification and applause . Suddenly Sinclair Lewis was a ...
... Street , finished in Washington early in the summer of 1920 and published in the fall of that year . Now the apprenticeship was abruptly ended , and ended in a positive storm of vilification and applause . Suddenly Sinclair Lewis was a ...
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... Street . Certain character types that were to be made famous by Main Street had already appeared -the hypocritical bigot , the village atheist , the aspiring idealist , and so on . And the basic pat- tern of Main Street was exactly the ...
... Street . Certain character types that were to be made famous by Main Street had already appeared -the hypocritical bigot , the village atheist , the aspiring idealist , and so on . And the basic pat- tern of Main Street was exactly the ...
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... Street to Stockholm : Letters of Sin- clair Lewis , 1919-1930 , edited by Harrison Smith . New York : Harcourt , Brace , 1952 . The Man from Main Street : Selected Essays and Other Writings , 1904-1950 , edited by Harry E. Maule and ...
... Street to Stockholm : Letters of Sin- clair Lewis , 1919-1930 , edited by Harrison Smith . New York : Harcourt , Brace , 1952 . The Man from Main Street : Selected Essays and Other Writings , 1904-1950 , edited by Harry E. Maule and ...
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