Books I Love: Being a Selection of 100 Titles for a Home Library, with Added Comment on Other Books, Many Authors and the Delights of ReadingDoubleday, 1969 - 200 Seiten |
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... America had come of age in the field of literature . Emer- son himself was an outstanding example of the rising tide ... American Scholar , " de- livered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard in the summer of 1837 , and preserved ...
... America had come of age in the field of literature . Emer- son himself was an outstanding example of the rising tide ... American Scholar , " de- livered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard in the summer of 1837 , and preserved ...
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... American work that I treasure can scarcely be viewed as literature at all in the usual sense . It is more a blending of a tale of adventure and a stirring chapter in American history . But tales of adventure are HOME - GROWN BOOKS AND ...
... American work that I treasure can scarcely be viewed as literature at all in the usual sense . It is more a blending of a tale of adventure and a stirring chapter in American history . But tales of adventure are HOME - GROWN BOOKS AND ...
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... American author who took the opposite tack with enormous success . That was Samuel Langhorne Clemens , alias Mark Twain , who had no use for theories , no head for figures , hated politics , and despised politicians . Almost everything ...
... American author who took the opposite tack with enormous success . That was Samuel Langhorne Clemens , alias Mark Twain , who had no use for theories , no head for figures , hated politics , and despised politicians . Almost everything ...
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