Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 66
... characters and incidents , but also because , like Burns , he was demo- cratic enough to be interested in humble folk . The Scottish efforts against England , so prominent in Waverley , Rob Roy , and Guy Mannering , could not but remind ...
... characters and incidents , but also because , like Burns , he was demo- cratic enough to be interested in humble folk . The Scottish efforts against England , so prominent in Waverley , Rob Roy , and Guy Mannering , could not but remind ...
Page 140
... character who had been supposed dead turned up in the latter part of the story to afford new complications . Two characters did that in The Curse of Clifton : Frank Fairfax is killed in the Indian wars , and so his secret bride drowns ...
... character who had been supposed dead turned up in the latter part of the story to afford new complications . Two characters did that in The Curse of Clifton : Frank Fairfax is killed in the Indian wars , and so his secret bride drowns ...
Page 233
... character and place , and arranged them on a great burlap - covered screen - all before he began to write a novel . But the basic reason for his artificiality was that all his characters and incidents were theme - ridden ; they sprang ...
... character and place , and arranged them on a great burlap - covered screen - all before he began to write a novel . But the basic reason for his artificiality was that all his characters and incidents were theme - ridden ; they sprang ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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