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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Page 189
... seems to have affected not only the young but the old and one almost suspects the author herself . For how else can one explain Asa Timberlake ? At first blush he seems in the tradition of Honeywell , Littlepage , and Archbald , those ...
... seems to have affected not only the young but the old and one almost suspects the author herself . For how else can one explain Asa Timberlake ? At first blush he seems in the tradition of Honeywell , Littlepage , and Archbald , those ...
Page 232
... seems to have a special " sabbath " quality about it . This last is no doubt an illusion , but such illusions , he believes , are often " shadows of great truths " : Doubts may flit around me , or seem to close their evil wings , and ...
... seems to have a special " sabbath " quality about it . This last is no doubt an illusion , but such illusions , he believes , are often " shadows of great truths " : Doubts may flit around me , or seem to close their evil wings , and ...
Page 239
... seem not wholly ironic . But there is no joy for Dimmesdale either , any more than there is for Hester . And though his faith is always assumed , it seems to have as its only consequence an intensification of his feel- ing of guilt . He ...
... seem not wholly ironic . But there is no joy for Dimmesdale either , any more than there is for Hester . And though his faith is always assumed , it seems to have as its only consequence an intensification of his feel- ing of guilt . He ...
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