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Page 70
... dreaming of the fairy child , a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea . For years the fairy child had come to him . When others saw but George Babbitt , she discerned gallant youth . She waited for him , in the ...
... dreaming of the fairy child , a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea . For years the fairy child had come to him . When others saw but George Babbitt , she discerned gallant youth . She waited for him , in the ...
Page 90
... dream , comes inevitably to stand for America itself . Ours is the only nation that prides itself upon a dream and gives its name to one ... Clearly it is Fitzgerald's intention that our mind should turn to the thought of the nation ...
... dream , comes inevitably to stand for America itself . Ours is the only nation that prides itself upon a dream and gives its name to one ... Clearly it is Fitzgerald's intention that our mind should turn to the thought of the nation ...
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... chance of things or persons , from the cradle to the grave . But what it drove us to in action , the actual events of our lives — those were affected by a million things , by sheer chance , by the interaction 250 TRADITION AND DREAM.
... chance of things or persons , from the cradle to the grave . But what it drove us to in action , the actual events of our lives — those were affected by a million things , by sheer chance , by the interaction 250 TRADITION AND DREAM.
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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