Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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Page 50
... common order of nature , it is evident they belong to different systems : England to Europe , America to itself . Impetuous , often badly reasoned , Common Sense was nevertheless a powerful appeal to popular sagacity . It was well ...
... common order of nature , it is evident they belong to different systems : England to Europe , America to itself . Impetuous , often badly reasoned , Common Sense was nevertheless a powerful appeal to popular sagacity . It was well ...
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... common . Cruikshank drew twenty - seven pictures for the London Cassell edition ; an ambitious English issue the next year carried one hundred fifty illustrations . European editions often borrowed English pic- tures . Adaptations and ...
... common . Cruikshank drew twenty - seven pictures for the London Cassell edition ; an ambitious English issue the next year carried one hundred fifty illustrations . European editions often borrowed English pic- tures . Adaptations and ...
Page 289
... common people , whether in fiction or non- fiction . It is in the very atmosphere and mood of The Vicar of Wakefield , the poems of Robert Burns , all the Dickens novels , David Harum , The Egg and I ; and it marks four - tenths of all ...
... common people , whether in fiction or non- fiction . It is in the very atmosphere and mood of The Vicar of Wakefield , the poems of Robert Burns , all the Dickens novels , David Harum , The Egg and I ; and it marks four - tenths of all ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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