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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... voice still spoke , profound and effortless , as though it were the voice of the steel - and - chromium mausoleum itself , talking of creatures imbued with motion though not with life . . . . ” It is as though Faulkner had borrowed ...
... voice still spoke , profound and effortless , as though it were the voice of the steel - and - chromium mausoleum itself , talking of creatures imbued with motion though not with life . . . . ” It is as though Faulkner had borrowed ...
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... voice Says , " Let me ! Let me ! " The mute Puts his arms around the dwarf and raises him . The pane is clouded with their soft slow breaths , The mute's arms tire ; but they gaze on and on , Like children watching something wrong ...
... voice Says , " Let me ! Let me ! " The mute Puts his arms around the dwarf and raises him . The pane is clouded with their soft slow breaths , The mute's arms tire ; but they gaze on and on , Like children watching something wrong ...
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... voice rising above the prissy sentiment of the genteel tradition . The best of his stories have extraordinary power , which is generated by bold ideas , vigor and concreteness of language , and that combination of mystery and suspense ...
... voice rising above the prissy sentiment of the genteel tradition . The best of his stories have extraordinary power , which is generated by bold ideas , vigor and concreteness of language , and that combination of mystery and suspense ...
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