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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... dream is of a broad river that opens into a cavern . In the dream the current swirls him along until he sees the cavern yawning for him at the end of a tributary stream . The dream always ends here until the affair with Cynthia gains ...
... dream is of a broad river that opens into a cavern . In the dream the current swirls him along until he sees the cavern yawning for him at the end of a tributary stream . The dream always ends here until the affair with Cynthia gains ...
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... dream of freedom , he imagines himself a chi- nook salmon breaking loose from the sea to clear a waterfall - an Adamic man . But the dawn brings " blackout , " domestic data that keep his mind from maintaining this imagina- tive ...
... dream of freedom , he imagines himself a chi- nook salmon breaking loose from the sea to clear a waterfall - an Adamic man . But the dawn brings " blackout , " domestic data that keep his mind from maintaining this imagina- tive ...
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... dream she had begun to tell him earlier . In this dream she had enabled herself to accept the embraces of a Nazi type by pretending that he was really rather Byronic . As she walks away from the doctor's office , feeling the hateful ex ...
... dream she had begun to tell him earlier . In this dream she had enabled herself to accept the embraces of a Nazi type by pretending that he was really rather Byronic . As she walks away from the doctor's office , feeling the hateful ex ...
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