The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 149Atlantic Monthly Company, 1932 - American literature |
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The best of the modern biographies are less solemn , less rhetorical , less packed with platitudes and didacticism , than similar books would have been half a century ago . The work of Mr. Lytton Strachey struck a new note in ...
The best of the modern biographies are less solemn , less rhetorical , less packed with platitudes and didacticism , than similar books would have been half a century ago . The work of Mr. Lytton Strachey struck a new note in ...
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I will pass now to the second , far less objectionable obstacle to American popularity in South America , but one which is , to my mind , less easy to overcome , being traceable to a basic difference in Latin American and AngloAmerican ...
I will pass now to the second , far less objectionable obstacle to American popularity in South America , but one which is , to my mind , less easy to overcome , being traceable to a basic difference in Latin American and AngloAmerican ...
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One kindly correspondent , however , sent me a very courteous letter of interest and approval , ending with the suggestion that I should write another paper , ' a little less subtle ' ( her amiable euphemism for my diffidence ...
One kindly correspondent , however , sent me a very courteous letter of interest and approval , ending with the suggestion that I should write another paper , ' a little less subtle ' ( her amiable euphemism for my diffidence ...
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Contents
August Evening Josephine Johnson | 62 |
Perils of American Power Reinhold | 90 |
Gay Robert M | 96 |
Copyright | |
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