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An Anthology of Expository Prose Arthur M. Eastman. VAN WYCK BROOKS Mark Twain's Humor1 And now we are ready for Mark Twain's humor . We recall how reluctant Mark Twain was to adopt the humorist's career and how , all his life , he was ...
An Anthology of Expository Prose Arthur M. Eastman. VAN WYCK BROOKS Mark Twain's Humor1 And now we are ready for Mark Twain's humor . We recall how reluctant Mark Twain was to adopt the humorist's career and how , all his life , he was ...
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... Mark Twain . By means of those jokes of his - ( " men were killed every week , " says Mr. Paine , of one little contest of wit in which he engaged , " for milder things than the editors had spoken each of the ... Mark Twain's Humor 565 .
... Mark Twain . By means of those jokes of his - ( " men were killed every week , " says Mr. Paine , of one little contest of wit in which he engaged , " for milder things than the editors had spoken each of the ... Mark Twain's Humor 565 .
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... Mark Twain's humor does . It is just as " irreverent " as the Boston Brahmins thought , when they gave Mark Twain a seat below the salt : it degrades , " takes down , " punctures , ridicules as pretentious and absurd everything of a ...
... Mark Twain's humor does . It is just as " irreverent " as the Boston Brahmins thought , when they gave Mark Twain a seat below the salt : it degrades , " takes down , " punctures , ridicules as pretentious and absurd everything of a ...
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Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas | 1 |
Allan Seager The Joys of Sport at Oxford | 11 |
A J Liebling Poet and Pedagogue | 22 |
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