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 92
... legend of " Livy's " blighting influence on Mark's robust genius is an old and popular one , principally , I should imagine , among males . It is rejected , however , by De Lancey Ferguson , in his Mark Twain : Man and Legend . Pointing ...
... legend of " Livy's " blighting influence on Mark's robust genius is an old and popular one , principally , I should imagine , among males . It is rejected , however , by De Lancey Ferguson , in his Mark Twain : Man and Legend . Pointing ...
Page 203
... Legend The task of documenting the legend of the late Howard Phillips Lovecraft , master writer of " weird " stories , goes forward without appreciable pause and is itself an interesting phenomenon . Two collec- tions of his macabre ...
... Legend The task of documenting the legend of the late Howard Phillips Lovecraft , master writer of " weird " stories , goes forward without appreciable pause and is itself an interesting phenomenon . Two collec- tions of his macabre ...
Page 241
... Legend A number of times while reading Millicent Todd Bingham's Ancestors ' Brocades , the remarka- ble new work on the " literary début " of Emily Dickinson , I wondered if I had not inadvertently strayed into the pages of Wuthering ...
... Legend A number of times while reading Millicent Todd Bingham's Ancestors ' Brocades , the remarka- ble new work on the " literary début " of Emily Dickinson , I wondered if I had not inadvertently strayed into the pages of Wuthering ...
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