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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... whole history of the genre , but Hammett's is one of them . He was the first writer after Conan Doyle to bring something new to the profession he serves , and that something was completely American style and meth- od and an uninhibited ...
... whole history of the genre , but Hammett's is one of them . He was the first writer after Conan Doyle to bring something new to the profession he serves , and that something was completely American style and meth- od and an uninhibited ...
Page 146
... whole diary , but here is all I have seen of it : " On Saturday , the 17th , some little children ran up shouting , " The English , the English ! ' What an entry ! It will be long before it will be for- gotten . " The English soldiers ...
... whole diary , but here is all I have seen of it : " On Saturday , the 17th , some little children ran up shouting , " The English , the English ! ' What an entry ! It will be long before it will be for- gotten . " The English soldiers ...
Page 197
... whole was a scene of festivity till twelve o'clock at night . " Thus , a little naively perhaps , two of the lead- ing poets of England celebrated the defeat of a famous tyrant and dictator , I learn from a recent desultory reading of ...
... whole was a scene of festivity till twelve o'clock at night . " Thus , a little naively perhaps , two of the lead- ing poets of England celebrated the defeat of a famous tyrant and dictator , I learn from a recent desultory reading of ...
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