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... called the American Middlewest . That is our introduction to Carol , set in the conventional pose of a young girl in an advertisement and described in prose of equal banality . Carol becomes a librarian in St Paul and dreams of bringing ...
... called the American Middlewest . That is our introduction to Carol , set in the conventional pose of a young girl in an advertisement and described in prose of equal banality . Carol becomes a librarian in St Paul and dreams of bringing ...
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... called Jeremiah Beaumont in the novel - killed his patron Colonel Cassius Fort out of sheer romantic idealism , to avenge a girl whom Fort had seduced and abandoned . It is the pursuit of an ideal that leads Beaumont to disaster ; and ...
... called Jeremiah Beaumont in the novel - killed his patron Colonel Cassius Fort out of sheer romantic idealism , to avenge a girl whom Fort had seduced and abandoned . It is the pursuit of an ideal that leads Beaumont to disaster ; and ...
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... called ' the black and merciless things behind great possessions ' . The novel , which is long and worked out in massive detail , is essentially an extended character - study of George Warwick Marsh III . We see him entirely through the ...
... called ' the black and merciless things behind great possessions ' . The novel , which is long and worked out in massive detail , is essentially an extended character - study of George Warwick Marsh III . We see him entirely through the ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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