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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... Successful Novels on the Stage . The Publication of Plays . George Ade . George M. Cohan . William Vaughn Moody . Later Literary Drama . The Broad- way School . Tricks and Farces . Independent Theatres . The New Theatre . Pageants ...
... Successful Novels on the Stage . The Publication of Plays . George Ade . George M. Cohan . William Vaughn Moody . Later Literary Drama . The Broad- way School . Tricks and Farces . Independent Theatres . The New Theatre . Pageants ...
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... success was due partly to its novelty and partly to the wide interest which the excursion itself had excited . Both these advantages it has now relinquished , yet , as his biographer tells us , it remains the most popular of all Mark ...
... success was due partly to its novelty and partly to the wide interest which the excursion itself had excited . Both these advantages it has now relinquished , yet , as his biographer tells us , it remains the most popular of all Mark ...
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... successful on the stage . Later , in col- laboration with Howells , Mark Twain made a second Sellers play showing the hero aspiring to an English earldom ; and this he worked over into The American Claimant ( 1891 ) , a gener- ally ...
... successful on the stage . Later , in col- laboration with Howells , Mark Twain made a second Sellers play showing the hero aspiring to an English earldom ; and this he worked over into The American Claimant ( 1891 ) , a gener- ally ...
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... successful manu- facturer and conspicuous advocate of high tariff . At any rate , the words prefixed to one of the most widely circulated humor- ous books of the time might well have served as a motto for them all : " Fun is the most ...
... successful manu- facturer and conspicuous advocate of high tariff . At any rate , the words prefixed to one of the most widely circulated humor- ous books of the time might well have served as a motto for them all : " Fun is the most ...
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... successful effort to establish industrial art as a branch of public education , and in the study of gipsy lore , tinkers ' language , Indian legends , Italian witches , and all things exotic , mysterious , and occult . During this time ...
... successful effort to establish industrial art as a branch of public education , and in the study of gipsy lore , tinkers ' language , Indian legends , Italian witches , and all things exotic , mysterious , and occult . During this time ...
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