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... nature . ' ) which sets Myers apart from and against the majority of his contemporaries . Any way of life , any philosophy , that denied the essential goodness of human nature for him was evil . To his first novel , The Orrissers ...
... nature . ' ) which sets Myers apart from and against the majority of his contemporaries . Any way of life , any philosophy , that denied the essential goodness of human nature for him was evil . To his first novel , The Orrissers ...
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... nature of Gatsby's ambitions . But just as significant is the point made when Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as sprung ... nature of being an American , and Gatsby becomes the symbol almost of the United States itself at one moment in its ...
... nature of Gatsby's ambitions . But just as significant is the point made when Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as sprung ... nature of being an American , and Gatsby becomes the symbol almost of the United States itself at one moment in its ...
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... nature forced him to refuse the selfless act of dying . He continued to exist separately in a world composed of his own murderous nature . ' Pincher Martin is an exceedingly powerful sermon , almost medieval in its author's remorseless ...
... nature forced him to refuse the selfless act of dying . He continued to exist separately in a world composed of his own murderous nature . ' Pincher Martin is an exceedingly powerful sermon , almost medieval in its author's remorseless ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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