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... everything is left out . Everything ? Not at all , exclaimed James's friend and fellow - novelist William Dean Howells : there remained ' simply the whole of human life ' . One sympathizes with Howells's democratic fervour , but , from ...
... everything is left out . Everything ? Not at all , exclaimed James's friend and fellow - novelist William Dean Howells : there remained ' simply the whole of human life ' . One sympathizes with Howells's democratic fervour , but , from ...
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... everything I have done all my life , everything I have to do , has widened that angle and that everything always will widen it . And yet I don't think it ought to be widened . There ought to be some way or other of making these two ...
... everything I have done all my life , everything I have to do , has widened that angle and that everything always will widen it . And yet I don't think it ought to be widened . There ought to be some way or other of making these two ...
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... everything else Dos Passos wrote before it , Manhattan Transfer prepares the way for the trilogy U.S.A. , just as everything else he has written after it seems anticlimax . U.S.A. has been extremely influential technically , not only on ...
... everything else Dos Passos wrote before it , Manhattan Transfer prepares the way for the trilogy U.S.A. , just as everything else he has written after it seems anticlimax . U.S.A. has been extremely influential technically , not only on ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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