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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Page 139
... human language " and that it was " disastrous to put ani- mals and human beings on the same level . " The Mark Twain prohibitions were early Amer- ican phenomena which to readers of the moment will seem to have been unnecessary and ...
... human language " and that it was " disastrous to put ani- mals and human beings on the same level . " The Mark Twain prohibitions were early Amer- ican phenomena which to readers of the moment will seem to have been unnecessary and ...
Page 142
... Human Bond- age and The Moon and Sixpence . I dissent from the supposed number of Maugham's major novels . Cakes and Ale also is a major performance— less major than Of Human Bondage perhaps , but not a whit less major than The Moon and ...
... Human Bond- age and The Moon and Sixpence . I dissent from the supposed number of Maugham's major novels . Cakes and Ale also is a major performance— less major than Of Human Bondage perhaps , but not a whit less major than The Moon and ...
Page 201
... human story . Boswell's genius as a biographer is to be found , I think , in his very infatuation . It leads him to tell us just those things that we most want to know about a hero - the grotesque appearance , the uncouth mannerisms ...
... human story . Boswell's genius as a biographer is to be found , I think , in his very infatuation . It leads him to tell us just those things that we most want to know about a hero - the grotesque appearance , the uncouth mannerisms ...
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