An Approach to LiteratureAn Approach to Literature provides a very liberal selection of fiction, poetry and drama, and it is scarecely to be expected that the book will be regularly used from cover to cover. What we have tried to do, now more positively than ever, is to give teachers room to maneuver, a range of choices out of which they can tailor a course to their special needs and to the tastes and capacities of their students. |
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Page 323
... mother giggles at my father's words , the darkness drowns me . My father and mother depart from the house , my father shaking hands with my grandfather once more , out of some unknown uneasiness . I stir uneasily also , slouched in the ...
... mother giggles at my father's words , the darkness drowns me . My father and mother depart from the house , my father shaking hands with my grandfather once more , out of some unknown uneasiness . I stir uneasily also , slouched in the ...
Page 343
... mother and father have presum- ably had a deadly quarrel . In any case we know of the desire of the mother to dispose of the father . The mother has gradually played on the son's feelings until he works himself up to the point of ...
... mother and father have presum- ably had a deadly quarrel . In any case we know of the desire of the mother to dispose of the father . The mother has gradually played on the son's feelings until he works himself up to the point of ...
Page 389
... mother , the letter says Pete will soon be better . Alas , poor boy , he will never be better ( nor maybe needs to be better , that brave and simple soul ) , While they stand at home at the door he is dead already , The only son is dead ...
... mother , the letter says Pete will soon be better . Alas , poor boy , he will never be better ( nor maybe needs to be better , that brave and simple soul ) , While they stand at home at the door he is dead already , The only son is dead ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
William Carlos Williams | 11 |
Fictional Point | 17 |
Copyright | |
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