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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... century would clinch it , but for the purpose of bringing in some of our modern writers , I decided to cut down on the required age of book or author . Rather than draw an arbitrary date line , I fixed on World War I and its literary ...
... century would clinch it , but for the purpose of bringing in some of our modern writers , I decided to cut down on the required age of book or author . Rather than draw an arbitrary date line , I fixed on World War I and its literary ...
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... century later when Franco and the " Loyalists " were hacking away at one another . How- ever , Borrow blandly went ahead selling his Bibles and had only bloodless skirmishes with the warring “ Carlists ” and " Liberals " of his time ...
... century later when Franco and the " Loyalists " were hacking away at one another . How- ever , Borrow blandly went ahead selling his Bibles and had only bloodless skirmishes with the warring “ Carlists ” and " Liberals " of his time ...
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... century that young America had come of age in the field of literature . Emer- son himself was an outstanding example of the rising tide of scholarship in this country . For clear thinking and plain speaking he was the unrivaled American ...
... century that young America had come of age in the field of literature . Emer- son himself was an outstanding example of the rising tide of scholarship in this country . For clear thinking and plain speaking he was the unrivaled American ...
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