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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... theme , Farrell makes extensive excursions into the past history and the psychology of numer- ous other characters - ranging from professors to commercial flunkies - whose directions in life are at variance with the course Eddie takes ...
... theme , Farrell makes extensive excursions into the past history and the psychology of numer- ous other characters - ranging from professors to commercial flunkies - whose directions in life are at variance with the course Eddie takes ...
Page 61
... theme of the novel . But Addie also has curious rationalizations : Cash is her true son , she says , because while carry- ing him she had not yet realized that Anse's life did not violate hers nor her life violate his . Her second child ...
... theme of the novel . But Addie also has curious rationalizations : Cash is her true son , she says , because while carry- ing him she had not yet realized that Anse's life did not violate hers nor her life violate his . Her second child ...
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... theme of the boy shattered by the world he grows up in is a variation on one of the most ancient of all stories , and one of the greatest of all American stories , which relates the meeting of innocence and experience . It was a primary ...
... theme of the boy shattered by the world he grows up in is a variation on one of the most ancient of all stories , and one of the greatest of all American stories , which relates the meeting of innocence and experience . It was a primary ...
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