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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... letters . Mark Twain is one of our great representative men . He is a fulfilled promise of Ameri- can life . He proves the virtues of the land and the society in which he was born and fostered . He incarnates the spirit of an epoch of ...
... letters . Mark Twain is one of our great representative men . He is a fulfilled promise of Ameri- can life . He proves the virtues of the land and the society in which he was born and fostered . He incarnates the spirit of an epoch of ...
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... letters signed " Josh . " Thus 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 ...
... letters signed " Josh . " Thus 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 ...
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... letters to The Alta - California and the New York Tribune , and immortal- ized by his book Innocents Abroad . On 2 February , 1870 , he married his most sympathetic reader and severest censor , Olivia Langdon of Elmira , New York , a ...
... letters to The Alta - California and the New York Tribune , and immortal- ized by his book Innocents Abroad . On 2 February , 1870 , he married his most sympathetic reader and severest censor , Olivia Langdon of Elmira , New York , a ...
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... letters . His first academic recognition had come from Yale University , which created him Master of Arts in 1888 ; in 1901 Yale and in 1902 the University of Missouri conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Letters ; but the ...
... letters . His first academic recognition had come from Yale University , which created him Master of Arts in 1888 ; in 1901 Yale and in 1902 the University of Missouri conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Letters ; but the ...
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... letter to Aldrich he acknowledges great indebted- ness to Bret Harte , " who trimmed and trained and schooled me patiently until he changed me from an awkward utterer of coarse grotesquenesses to a writer of paragraphs and chapters that ...
... letter to Aldrich he acknowledges great indebted- ness to Bret Harte , " who trimmed and trained and schooled me patiently until he changed me from an awkward utterer of coarse grotesquenesses to a writer of paragraphs and chapters that ...
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