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vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Essays. |
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Politics and the social scene. A letter to the editor of politics ; America the beautiful: The humanist in the bathtub ; Ghandhi ; Mlle. Gulliver en Am'erique ; No news, or what killed the dog ; The contagion of ideas ; Artists is uniform ; My confession ; Letter from Portugal ; Mister Rodriques of Lisbon ; Naming names: The Arthur Miller case ; The Vita activa -- Woman. Tyranny of the orgasm ; Up the ladder from charm to vogue ; The Vassar girl -- Literature and the arts. Recalled to life, or, Charles Dickens at the bar ; Settling the colonel's hash ; An academy of risk ; The fact of fiction ; Characters in fiction ; The American realist playwrights. |
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American essays.
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American essays. (OCoLC)fst00807040
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