Major Writers of America, Volume 1Perry Miller Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 - 2056 pages Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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Page 281
... Cooper envisages here . The literature of that decade was no accident . More than a half - century of national history leads up to it , during which the foundations of a literary tradition were established . Without the substantial ...
... Cooper envisages here . The literature of that decade was no accident . More than a half - century of national history leads up to it , during which the foundations of a literary tradition were established . Without the substantial ...
Page 283
... Cooper's political primer , The American Democrat ( 1838 ) , will reveal how painful these were to Cooper ; but they were imperfections of the political surface , not of the heart , and they might be corrected . Cooper believed that ...
... Cooper's political primer , The American Democrat ( 1838 ) , will reveal how painful these were to Cooper ; but they were imperfections of the political surface , not of the heart , and they might be corrected . Cooper believed that ...
Page 284
... Cooper to continue in his new role . It is the story of a colonial family , the Whartons , living in Westchester during the Revolution , and the plot becomes a kind of debate in action between the American and the British points of view ...
... Cooper to continue in his new role . It is the story of a colonial family , the Whartons , living in Westchester during the Revolution , and the plot becomes a kind of debate in action between the American and the British points of view ...
Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD | 3 |
My Father and Your Father To | 4 |
THE FIRST BOOK | 11 |
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