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A Critical Analysis Of Negro Character In The American Novel Of The South 1935-1940, Alice Veronica Johnson Jan 1943

A Critical Analysis Of Negro Character In The American Novel Of The South 1935-1940, Alice Veronica Johnson

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I have observed in reading novels by both white and Negro authors that only certain types of Negroes have been portrayed. The question kept rising in my mind, Why? Usually it is the highly colorful, sensational, immoral type that is shown to the exclusion of the self-respecting, decent living, ordinary, everyday Negro.


Hawthorne's Life And Works Portray Him A Solitary Genius, Miss O. Ellis Jan 1930

Hawthorne's Life And Works Portray Him A Solitary Genius, Miss O. Ellis

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From amid an unadorned practical industrial community, arose one of America's brightest stars whose radiance has illuminated American Literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne was bore in Salem, July 4, 1804.


Shakespeare's Genius Was Essentially A Dramatic One, Marie Valentine Prudeaux Jul 1929

Shakespeare's Genius Was Essentially A Dramatic One, Marie Valentine Prudeaux

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Shakespeare, the poet, the actor and the great master of English drama, was born in Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire sure on or about April 23, 1564. His father John Shakespeare, was a leading citizen Of Stratford, who about 1557 married Mary Arden, the daughter of his landlord, who died, leaving his daughter, Mary, a considerable piece of land. The details of Shakespeare’s early life are somewhat meager; though it is believed he was sent to the free grammar school at his home, learning the rudiments of Latin, and less Greek, according to the testimony of Ben. Johnson, a contemporary. This dramatist …