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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... social product and social cause . Studs and his friends constantly absorb - and then fairly exude- the values of their milieu . Notice Studs in a moment of guilt : after having inwardly belit- tled Catherine , " he suddenly asked ...
... social product and social cause . Studs and his friends constantly absorb - and then fairly exude- the values of their milieu . Notice Studs in a moment of guilt : after having inwardly belit- tled Catherine , " he suddenly asked ...
Page 79
... social prestige - that is , money-- Fitzgerald had to make a fatal submission of himself to the glamorous rich . The ... social ac- tivities built not on the eighteenth century but simply on the prairie . " Wilson then took the occasion ...
... social prestige - that is , money-- Fitzgerald had to make a fatal submission of himself to the glamorous rich . The ... social ac- tivities built not on the eighteenth century but simply on the prairie . " Wilson then took the occasion ...
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... social strongholds but never able to afford more than " a house below the average / Of a street above the average " as Fitzgerald once put it . One of his best - known stories , " Winter Dreams , " a Jazz Age version of the Horatio ...
... social strongholds but never able to afford more than " a house below the average / Of a street above the average " as Fitzgerald once put it . One of his best - known stories , " Winter Dreams , " a Jazz Age version of the Horatio ...
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