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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... playing his flute , reciting Shakespeare , and filling note- books with impressions of moonlight over the Hudson , of ... play- house clean or the playgoers quiet ; and critics were taunted as " pests of society , " who at- tended ...
... playing his flute , reciting Shakespeare , and filling note- books with impressions of moonlight over the Hudson , of ... play- house clean or the playgoers quiet ; and critics were taunted as " pests of society , " who at- tended ...
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... play . The world they dramatize is the debased dream- world of the circus in Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped ... play really is , leads us deep into the problem of the nature and origin of religious concepts , " as Huizinga put it ...
... play . The world they dramatize is the debased dream- world of the circus in Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped ... play really is , leads us deep into the problem of the nature and origin of religious concepts , " as Huizinga put it ...
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... play called Going South , based on Gullible's Travels . Ziegfeld first rejected it , then wanted it turned into a musical . Lardner obliged . The play was never produced . At the same time , Lardner wrote to Fitzgerald that he was ...
... play called Going South , based on Gullible's Travels . Ziegfeld first rejected it , then wanted it turned into a musical . Lardner obliged . The play was never produced . At the same time , Lardner wrote to Fitzgerald that he was ...
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