Twentieth-century American Literature, 6. köideChelsea House Publishers, 1985 |
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... never lived , in Kentucky or anywhere else . Miss Roberts's world is never seen quite clearly . There is always the illusion of distance , of muffled sound , of indistinct edges , of a veil between the persons in the book and the reader ...
... never lived , in Kentucky or anywhere else . Miss Roberts's world is never seen quite clearly . There is always the illusion of distance , of muffled sound , of indistinct edges , of a veil between the persons in the book and the reader ...
Page 3471
... never did an experiment right , but got sponges stuck in the bottoms of test tubes . Just the housekeeping of chemistry was beyond me , never mind the experiment . I thought , if I fail chemistry in high school , I probably wouldn't do ...
... never did an experiment right , but got sponges stuck in the bottoms of test tubes . Just the housekeeping of chemistry was beyond me , never mind the experiment . I thought , if I fail chemistry in high school , I probably wouldn't do ...
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... never see Brooklyn . " In " Cinderella " the heroine slept on the sooty hearth each night and walked around looking like Al Jolson . The reader's initial response to these anachronisms may be one of delighted shock - Cinderella and Al ...
... never see Brooklyn . " In " Cinderella " the heroine slept on the sooty hearth each night and walked around looking like Al Jolson . The reader's initial response to these anachronisms may be one of delighted shock - Cinderella and Al ...
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