Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... strike one as a triumph of honesty , and very little else . It is questionable whether he ever wrote a single sentence ... strikes the reader about the world Dreiser describes and it is true of it whether it is the Philadelphia of a ...
... strike one as a triumph of honesty , and very little else . It is questionable whether he ever wrote a single sentence ... strikes the reader about the world Dreiser describes and it is true of it whether it is the Philadelphia of a ...
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... strike . Cantwell does not , of course , neglect to use the Fourth of July celebrations to point the contrast between ... strikes one now about The Land of Plenty is its quality as a heroic novel . Cantwell has said that he was moved to ...
... strike . Cantwell does not , of course , neglect to use the Fourth of July celebrations to point the contrast between ... strikes one now about The Land of Plenty is its quality as a heroic novel . Cantwell has said that he was moved to ...
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... Strike , Not Honour More , where his picture of the Strike seems to have little relation to recorded history . He is often , one feels , impatient of the detailed observation essential to the novel of social history . His range of ...
... Strike , Not Honour More , where his picture of the Strike seems to have little relation to recorded history . He is often , one feels , impatient of the detailed observation essential to the novel of social history . His range of ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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