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... Stories , Copyright © 1974 , 1976 , 1979 , 1981 by John Gardner . Alfred A. Knopf for quotations from Grendel , The Sunlight Dialogues , Nickel Mountain , and Mickelsson's Ghosts , all by John Gardner . Richard Scott Simon Limited for ...
... Stories , Copyright © 1974 , 1976 , 1979 , 1981 by John Gardner . Alfred A. Knopf for quotations from Grendel , The Sunlight Dialogues , Nickel Mountain , and Mickelsson's Ghosts , all by John Gardner . Richard Scott Simon Limited for ...
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... stories are more interesting if , in some sense or another , they mean some- thing . But it has begun to dawn on me ... story like " Death in Venice " or " Disorder and Early Sorrow " —when one has accounted for every verbal repetition ...
... stories are more interesting if , in some sense or another , they mean some- thing . But it has begun to dawn on me ... story like " Death in Venice " or " Disorder and Early Sorrow " —when one has accounted for every verbal repetition ...
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... story — one discovers that , when you come right down to it , Mann has told us nothing we didn't know already . In ... stories , one finds that what he observes about Thomas Mann holds true also for his own fiction . In other words , it ...
... story — one discovers that , when you come right down to it , Mann has told us nothing we didn't know already . In ... stories , one finds that what he observes about Thomas Mann holds true also for his own fiction . In other words , it ...
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... stories . In my study I address at some length Freddy's Book and The Art of Living , the first a less than successful novel , the other an uneven collection of short stories . I do this , then , not because of their artistic agility ...
... stories . In my study I address at some length Freddy's Book and The Art of Living , the first a less than successful novel , the other an uneven collection of short stories . I do this , then , not because of their artistic agility ...
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