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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... Literary Historians . John Foster Kirk . Francis Parkman . France and England in North America . Edward Eggleston . " A History of Life in the United States . " John Fiske . Historians of the Latest Period . Henry Charles Lea . Hubert ...
... Literary Historians . John Foster Kirk . Francis Parkman . France and England in North America . Edward Eggleston . " A History of Life in the United States . " John Fiske . Historians of the Latest Period . Henry Charles Lea . Hubert ...
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... literary significance , a large illustrative value , which has been happily emphasized by Albert Bigelow Paine's admirable biography and collection of letters . Mark Twain is one of our great representative men . He is a fulfilled ...
... literary significance , a large illustrative value , which has been happily emphasized by Albert Bigelow Paine's admirable biography and collection of letters . Mark Twain is one of our great representative men . He is a fulfilled ...
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... miles of shifting current , and became a licensed pilot . In the process he acquired without the slightest consciousness of its uses his richest store of literary material . Life in the West 3 " In that brief , 2 Mark Twain.
... miles of shifting current , and became a licensed pilot . In the process he acquired without the slightest consciousness of its uses his richest store of literary material . Life in the West 3 " In that brief , 2 Mark Twain.
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... 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 ultimately ...
... 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 ultimately ...
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... literary capital , he set out to invest it so that it would in every sense of the word yield the largest returns obtainable . To the enterprise of purveying literary entertainment he , first in America , applied the wide- ranging vision ...
... literary capital , he set out to invest it so that it would in every sense of the word yield the largest returns obtainable . To the enterprise of purveying literary entertainment he , first in America , applied the wide- ranging vision ...
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