Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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... American style and meth- od and an uninhibited imagination . Where earlier Americans , often with great skill , slavishly persisted in the romantic English tradition , Hammett pioneered to produce the first realistic American novels in ...
... American style and meth- od and an uninhibited imagination . Where earlier Americans , often with great skill , slavishly persisted in the romantic English tradition , Hammett pioneered to produce the first realistic American novels in ...
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... America ( or England ) where he married the Squire's daughter Lucy ( or Clara ) and became a partner in the great shipping enterprise inaugurated by his uncle . Almost An American Of the many English writers , great and small , who ...
... America ( or England ) where he married the Squire's daughter Lucy ( or Clara ) and became a partner in the great shipping enterprise inaugurated by his uncle . Almost An American Of the many English writers , great and small , who ...
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... American residence , the youngest son of a Unitarian clergyman who had made himself un- popular in Ireland and fled with his family and his conscience to the new world . It is interesting to recall that the Rev. William Hazlitt's ...
... American residence , the youngest son of a Unitarian clergyman who had made himself un- popular in Ireland and fled with his family and his conscience to the new world . It is interesting to recall that the Rev. William Hazlitt's ...
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