Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States : Essays 1992-1997This is the first new Gore Vidal collection since Armageddon and A View From the Diners Club. Among the subjects covered are Mark Twain, John Updike, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman and George Washington. ' |
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... thought her a joke , he was willing to go along with it . In youth Lewis wrote yards of romantic verse , much of it jocose ; yet he had heard Yeats at Yale and was much impressed by the poetry of the early Yeats . Like most born writers ...
... thought her a joke , he was willing to go along with it . In youth Lewis wrote yards of romantic verse , much of it jocose ; yet he had heard Yeats at Yale and was much impressed by the poetry of the early Yeats . Like most born writers ...
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... thought by James Purdy : " Vietnam is atrocious for the dead and maimed innocent , but it's probably sadder to be a live American with only the Madison Avenue Glibbers for a homeland and a God . ” Rabbit will go to his final burrow ...
... thought by James Purdy : " Vietnam is atrocious for the dead and maimed innocent , but it's probably sadder to be a live American with only the Madison Avenue Glibbers for a homeland and a God . ” Rabbit will go to his final burrow ...
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... thought I was back at my old school , Exeter , from which I had graduated a half - century earlier , unless a recurrent nightmare runs true to course , in which case I did not graduate but have spent fifty dusty years trying , un ...
... thought I was back at my old school , Exeter , from which I had graduated a half - century earlier , unless a recurrent nightmare runs true to course , in which case I did not graduate but have spent fifty dusty years trying , un ...
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