The New Mark Twain HandbookGarland Pub., 1985 - 254 Seiten |
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... hands the fragment from some story of Joan of Arc . So stirred was the young printer's imagination by this glimpse at history that from a broken bit of dialogue he suddenly began to try his hand at sketching characters and plots ( Paine ...
... hands the fragment from some story of Joan of Arc . So stirred was the young printer's imagination by this glimpse at history that from a broken bit of dialogue he suddenly began to try his hand at sketching characters and plots ( Paine ...
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... hand infor- mation gained from wide and intelligent inquiry during his later travels , and what might be called the third - hand or literary knowledge gleaned from the many books to which his lively interest in the subject directed him ...
... hand infor- mation gained from wide and intelligent inquiry during his later travels , and what might be called the third - hand or literary knowledge gleaned from the many books to which his lively interest in the subject directed him ...
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... hand , he sees as characterizing the ethical and aesthetic assumptions as well as the language of the nineteenth- century backwoodsman or frontiersman . Mark Twain , says Smith , was hostile toward the dominant culture ; it had " lost ...
... hand , he sees as characterizing the ethical and aesthetic assumptions as well as the language of the nineteenth- century backwoodsman or frontiersman . Mark Twain , says Smith , was hostile toward the dominant culture ; it had " lost ...
Inhalt
The Growth of Mark Twain Biography | 1 |
Backgrounds | 49 |
The Man of Letters | 89 |
Urheberrecht | |
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