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... novel , The Resurrection , was published in 1966 , but it received little attention from reviewers and critics . However , during the first three years of the following decade one new novel came out every year , and now the literary ...
... novel , The Resurrection , was published in 1966 , but it received little attention from reviewers and critics . However , during the first three years of the following decade one new novel came out every year , and now the literary ...
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... novels and other works that have been published throughout the 1980s further attest to the attention given to Gardner's works . One more book - length study appeared toward the end of the decade , Leonard Butts's The Novels of John ...
... novels and other works that have been published throughout the 1980s further attest to the attention given to Gardner's works . One more book - length study appeared toward the end of the decade , Leonard Butts's The Novels of John ...
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... novels and stories , one finds that what he observes about Thomas Mann holds true also for his own fiction . In other words , it is not as a writer of ideas that Gardner most insistently commands our atten- tion . One does not say this ...
... novels and stories , one finds that what he observes about Thomas Mann holds true also for his own fiction . In other words , it is not as a writer of ideas that Gardner most insistently commands our atten- tion . One does not say this ...
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... novels might lead one to believe , novels like The Resurrection , Nickel Mountain , October Light , and Mickelsson's ... novel , the other an uneven collection of short stories . I do this , then , not because of their artistic agility ...
... novels might lead one to believe , novels like The Resurrection , Nickel Mountain , October Light , and Mickelsson's ... novel , the other an uneven collection of short stories . I do this , then , not because of their artistic agility ...
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... novel , but I discovered that there was very little I could say about this book which I had not already said , or was going to say , about those texts that intrigued me the most . My study is organized in keeping with a clearly ...
... novel , but I discovered that there was very little I could say about this book which I had not already said , or was going to say , about those texts that intrigued me the most . My study is organized in keeping with a clearly ...
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