Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... early grace I might For death prepared to be ! " New England Primer " CHILDREN all have a hard time . To learn how to live in a strange world is probably more difficult for the babe than any undertaking he may have to engage in later ...
... early grace I might For death prepared to be ! " New England Primer " CHILDREN all have a hard time . To learn how to live in a strange world is probably more difficult for the babe than any undertaking he may have to engage in later ...
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... early Monday morning November 6 , 1842 , and the Brother Jonathan " extra , " containing the entire book , was on sale in New York by that evening . The New World was not far behind , and Harpers and at least one publisher in ...
... early Monday morning November 6 , 1842 , and the Brother Jonathan " extra , " containing the entire book , was on sale in New York by that evening . The New World was not far behind , and Harpers and at least one publisher in ...
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... early stories appeared in the National Era , a Washington literary miscellany with strong antislavery bias - remem- bered chiefly today as the paper which gave serial publication to Uncle Tom's Cabin . Very early in her literary career ...
... early stories appeared in the National Era , a Washington literary miscellany with strong antislavery bias - remem- bered chiefly today as the paper which gave serial publication to Uncle Tom's Cabin . Very early in her literary career ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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