Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... once declared : " As Paradise Lost is to militant Puritanism , so is The Task to its author's time . To its char- acter as the poem of a sect it no doubt owed and still owes much of its popu- larity . " In general , the literary critics ...
... once declared : " As Paradise Lost is to militant Puritanism , so is The Task to its author's time . To its char- acter as the poem of a sect it no doubt owed and still owes much of its popu- larity . " In general , the literary critics ...
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... once at ten and twenty cents respectively . Putnams also published it in paper covers , but at sixty cents ; and both Lovell and Putnam issued cloth editions at a dollar . All this was in 1882. The next year other publishers issued the ...
... once at ten and twenty cents respectively . Putnams also published it in paper covers , but at sixty cents ; and both Lovell and Putnam issued cloth editions at a dollar . All this was in 1882. The next year other publishers issued the ...
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... once told a writer for the Bookman how he made up cards for every incident and sub - incident , for every character and place , and arranged them on a great burlap - covered screen - all before he began to write a novel . But the basic ...
... once told a writer for the Bookman how he made up cards for every incident and sub - incident , for every character and place , and arranged them on a great burlap - covered screen - all before he began to write a novel . But the basic ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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