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The experience began in the elementary schools. ... Adult education, she observed, tended to be little better; it was "usually bookish and remote, and concerning subjects completely divorced" from the experiences of workingmen.
The experience began in the elementary schools. ... Adult education, she observed, tended to be little better; it was "usually bookish and remote, and concerning subjects completely divorced" from the experiences of workingmen.
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The various stories not only illuminate each other in their psychological intimacy, but also exemplify almost a century of black American social experience. Part One and Part Three are set in the present of the mid- 1 930 's, ...
The various stories not only illuminate each other in their psychological intimacy, but also exemplify almost a century of black American social experience. Part One and Part Three are set in the present of the mid- 1 930 's, ...
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Yet for all its familiarity, Watch on the Rhine was partly inspired by Hellman's own experiences. ... However, "Julia" is more satisfying as literature than Watch on the Rhine because experience supplied the drama which had only to be ...
Yet for all its familiarity, Watch on the Rhine was partly inspired by Hellman's own experiences. ... However, "Julia" is more satisfying as literature than Watch on the Rhine because experience supplied the drama which had only to be ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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