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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... reader rather than to his judgment . My writing , therefore , may seem light and trifling . " But with the appearance in New York two months later of the first number of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon , Gent . , Irving's repu ...
... reader rather than to his judgment . My writing , therefore , may seem light and trifling . " But with the appearance in New York two months later of the first number of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon , Gent . , Irving's repu ...
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... reader the burden of ferreting out for him- self what is happening in the story . In a sense it converts the reader into a spectator , it places him at the author's window in the " house of fiction . " Few readers were willing during ...
... reader the burden of ferreting out for him- self what is happening in the story . In a sense it converts the reader into a spectator , it places him at the author's window in the " house of fiction . " Few readers were willing during ...
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... reader shared his connections with them . He builds suspense and emotional involvement for the reader over the question of how he ( London ) felt about every item in the calendar of delay and fraud that marked the building of the boat ...
... reader shared his connections with them . He builds suspense and emotional involvement for the reader over the question of how he ( London ) felt about every item in the calendar of delay and fraud that marked the building of the boat ...
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