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Tales and Sketches by John Greenleaf Whittier

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The complete online text of Tales and Sketches by John Greenleaf Whittier.


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Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure. John Greenleaf Whittier was born on a farm near Haverhill, Mass., on Dec. 17, 1807, of poor Quake...
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Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier
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John Greenleaf Whittier's importance to America's cultural life, and the claim he makes on our remembrance, is at least twofold. In the first place his life was and remains a model of dedication to the twin principles of freedom and tolerance. In the lon...
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Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier
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Although John Greenleaf Whittier's reputation as a poet declined drastically in the twentieth century, his career is of continuing interest as an example of the writer functioning as a deeply committed reform activist. In the thirty-year struggle to abol...
 


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Studies in Short Fiction
Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches. (book reviews)
01/01/1996: 751 words, approx. 3 pages
Edited and introduced by Tom Quirk. New York: Penguin, 1994. xxxv + 410 pages. $10.95 paper. This superb new collection counters Twain's own definition of a literary "classic": it is a book everyone will want to read. Scrupulously edited by a distinguished Twainian,...
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Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays, 2 vols.
01/18/1993: 1,137 words, approx. 4 pages
Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 2 vols. (Library of America, 2,126 pp., $70) THE INCREDULOUS, accusatory question, "You don't like Mark Twain?" is one I heard throughout my young womanhood. The shocked inquisitor was always male. This particular gender gap...


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