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There were two more books: a collection of memorials Addams had delivered on the deaths of beloved friends, The Excellent Becomes the Permanent (1932), and a partial biography, My Friend, Julia Lathrop (1935), published posthumously.
There were two more books: a collection of memorials Addams had delivered on the deaths of beloved friends, The Excellent Becomes the Permanent (1932), and a partial biography, My Friend, Julia Lathrop (1935), published posthumously.
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Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician fallen on evil days, commits suicide one-fifth of the way through the novel, but his memory persists in the minds of his friends, most of whom consider themselves to be in some degree responsible for ...
Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician fallen on evil days, commits suicide one-fifth of the way through the novel, but his memory persists in the minds of his friends, most of whom consider themselves to be in some degree responsible for ...
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I may be lazy, or indifferent, or timid, but I am by no means one of those (such as a few of my friends) who are wedded for better or for worse to the status quo, with an iron ring that Reason cannot get away unless it takes the finger ...
I may be lazy, or indifferent, or timid, but I am by no means one of those (such as a few of my friends) who are wedded for better or for worse to the status quo, with an iron ring that Reason cannot get away unless it takes the finger ...
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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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