The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and ThirtiesRecounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England. |
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... - ciety ; his failure , after years of living among them , to establish intimate relations with the English and his disillusioned reaction against them ; the bankruptcy of his imagination 217 The Pilgrimage of Henry James.
... - ciety ; his failure , after years of living among them , to establish intimate relations with the English and his disillusioned reaction against them ; the bankruptcy of his imagination 217 The Pilgrimage of Henry James.
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... Henry James's tragedy , according to Mr. Brooks , was that of the literary artist who has lost contact with his own society without having been able to strike roots in any other . And of all this aspect of James's career he has given ...
... Henry James's tragedy , according to Mr. Brooks , was that of the literary artist who has lost contact with his own society without having been able to strike roots in any other . And of all this aspect of James's career he has given ...
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... James . One remembers in this connection a curious passage about Shakespeare in America's Coming - of - Age : " Why is it , " asked Mr. Brooks , " that Shakespeare is never the master of originating minds ? Plato may be ... HENRY JAMES 227.
... James . One remembers in this connection a curious passage about Shakespeare in America's Coming - of - Age : " Why is it , " asked Mr. Brooks , " that Shakespeare is never the master of originating minds ? Plato may be ... HENRY JAMES 227.
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Christian Gauss as a Teacher | 3 |
F Scott Fitzgerald | 15 |
The New Byron Letters | 57 |
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