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Page 52
... less well in Gerhardi's later books . The most ambitious of these is Resurrection ( 1934 ) , which Gerhardi himself calls an autobiographical novel . Certainly the hero and narrator is a novelist who has shared Gerhardi's strange ...
... less well in Gerhardi's later books . The most ambitious of these is Resurrection ( 1934 ) , which Gerhardi himself calls an autobiographical novel . Certainly the hero and narrator is a novelist who has shared Gerhardi's strange ...
Page 131
... less fatal for him than for Warren . Warren , after all , purports to tell us things philosophically important . Which is why Warren's best novel is still his first , Night Rider ( 1939 ) , simply because it is so much more compact than ...
... less fatal for him than for Warren . Warren , after all , purports to tell us things philosophically important . Which is why Warren's best novel is still his first , Night Rider ( 1939 ) , simply because it is so much more compact than ...
Page 243
... less incompre- hensible to each other . In these novels we see primitive peoples faced with a new and largely unintelligible civilization , taking what they want from the white man's religion and way of life and making of it a new thing ...
... less incompre- hensible to each other . In these novels we see primitive peoples faced with a new and largely unintelligible civilization , taking what they want from the white man's religion and way of life and making of it a new thing ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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