The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... began his literary career . In reporting for this paper the sessions of the Legislature at Carson City he first employed the signature " Mark Twain , " a name previously used by a pilot - correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune but ...
... began his literary career . In reporting for this paper the sessions of the Legislature at Carson City he first employed the signature " Mark Twain , " a name previously used by a pilot - correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune but ...
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... began . He would begin a story , for example , on the key of impressive realism , shift to commonplace melodrama , and end with roaring farce ; and this amounts to saying that he did not himself steadily take his fiction writing ...
... began . He would begin a story , for example , on the key of impressive realism , shift to commonplace melodrama , and end with roaring farce ; and this amounts to saying that he did not himself steadily take his fiction writing ...
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... began as a play in 1872 and published in its present form in 1876. The long incubation contributed to its unsurpassed unity of tone . But the decisive fact is that his irresponsible and frequently extravagant fancy is here held in check ...
... began as a play in 1872 and published in its present form in 1876. The long incubation contributed to its unsurpassed unity of tone . But the decisive fact is that his irresponsible and frequently extravagant fancy is here held in check ...
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... began to write , the contemplated short story swiftly expanded , and there developed unexpectedly un- der his hand serious characters and a tragic situation unrelated to the initiating impulse . After long study he extracted the " farce ...
... began to write , the contemplated short story swiftly expanded , and there developed unexpectedly un- der his hand serious characters and a tragic situation unrelated to the initiating impulse . After long study he extracted the " farce ...
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... began on the humour of a particular locality and gradually extended their range . Miss Marietta Holley as " Josiah Allen's Wife " from up - state New York has for more than forty years applied shrewd observation and the homeliest common ...
... began on the humour of a particular locality and gradually extended their range . Miss Marietta Holley as " Josiah Allen's Wife " from up - state New York has for more than forty years applied shrewd observation and the homeliest common ...
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