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106 Cards in this Set
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Chicago World's Fair ; first gasoline-powered automobile
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1893
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The Red Bage of Courage ; motion-picture developed
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1895
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Gold discovered in the Klondike
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1896
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Spanish-American War
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1898
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Wright brothers make first airplane flight
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1903
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WWI begins
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1914
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US enters WWI
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1917
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WWI ends
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1918
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Modern Chivalry
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Brackenridge
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Wieland
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Brown
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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Howells
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Daisy Miller
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James
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Washington Square
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James
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The American
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James
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The Wings of the Dove
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James
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The Ambassadors
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James
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The Golden Bowl
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James
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The Octopus
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Norris
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McTeague
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Norris
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Sister Carrie
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Dreiser
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An American Tragedy
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Dreiser
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The Awakening
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Chopin
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The Age of Innocence
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Wharton
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Ethan Frome
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Wharton
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Main Street
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Lewis
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Babbitt
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Lewis
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Manhattan Transfer
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Passos
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U.S.A.
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Passos
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Studs Lonigan
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Farrell
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The Sun Also Rises
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Hemingway
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The Sound and the Fury
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Faulkner
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Steinbeck
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Baldwin
black |
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Invisible Man
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Ellison
black |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Hurston
black |
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Song of Solomon
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Morrison
black |
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The Color of Purple
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Walker
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House Made of Dawn
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Momaday
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Love Medicine
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Erdich
black |
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The Promised Land
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Antin
immigrant |
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The Jungle
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Sinclair
immigrant |
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Giants in the Earth
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Robinson
immigrant |
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The Barrio Boy
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Gallarza
immigrant |
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Nobel Prizes first awarded in...
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1901
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Nobel Prize for economics first awarded in...
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1969
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American Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Lewis
O'Neill Buck Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck Bellow Singer Milosz Brodsky Morrison |
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Frontier "closed" to new people moving there
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1890
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invented the x-rays
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Adams
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How the Other Half Lives
took pictures of the poor |
Riis
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those whose unpleasant task it was to rake over the corruption in American society and so expose it to light
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muckrakers
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The Shame of Cities
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Steffens
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887
predicted life would be in 2000 |
Bellamy
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notihng more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material
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realism
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Father of Naturalism
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Zola
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two forces at work on a man in naturalism
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heredity
environment |
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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Crane
first American Naturalistic novel |
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Four Leading Naturalists
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Norris
London Crane Dreiser |
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Swedish chemist who created dynamite
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Nobel
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Nobel
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set up $9 million fun
(Nobel Prizes) |
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Nobel Prize
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each prize a little over $1 million
must have done something to promote peace international |
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Nobel Peace Prizes are given at...
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Oslo, Norway
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all other Nobel Prizes are given at...
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Nobel Prizes are given on...
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December 10
the anniversary of Nobel's death |
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Pulitzer
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his will is overseen by Columbia University
only given to Americans first given in 1917 given to title |
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Crane
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youngest of 14 children
child of Methodist minister grew up in NJ wanted to be a baseball player shipwrecked in Cuba died of TB |
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Crane
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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Crane
wrote under a pseudynom |
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The Open Boat
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Crane
about the sea injured/rude captain captain lives Billie - kind Billie dies small 10 ft boat the oiler |
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"War is Kind"
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Crane
realistic/romantic views of war the killed will go to heaven war is good/war is tragic |
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Northeaster
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Homer
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The Scream of Shrapnelat at San Juan Hil, Cuba
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Remington
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Cather
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born in VA
grew up in NE U of NE high school englsih teacher managing editor of McClure's Magazine |
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The Troll Garden
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Cather
short story collection icludes "the Sculptor's Funeral" |
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O Pioneers!
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Cather
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The Song of the Lark
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Cather
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My Antonia
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Cather
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"The Sculptor's Funeral"
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Cather
little kansas town Jim (pupil) some vernacular about life in the wast Mr. Merrick Philip Phelps Thompson Steavens Mrs. Merrick Harvey Merrick Annie Martin talking about funeral Reuben Sayer said bad things about dead Merrick |
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"A Wagner Matinee"
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Cather
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"thousands of farm women suffering alone in their kitchens, living in a strange world amidst familiar lives out with endless chores and fears"
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describes Cather
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A Lost Lady
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Cather
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The Professor's House
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Cather
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London
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born in San Francisco
father was an astrologer mother was a medium illegal "oyster pirate" jailed in Japan read up to 19 hours a day went to U of Cali but didnt like it went to the Yukon, but only came back with inspiration |
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The Call of the Wind
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London
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The Sea-Wolf
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London
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Martin Eden
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London
autobiographical |
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Robinson
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Maine- used experiences to form Tilbury Twon in his stories
lived in Greenwich Village won three Pulitzers in Lit "new poetry" |
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The Torrent and the Night Before
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Robinson
paid for the printing |
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The Children of the Night
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Robinson
paid for the printing |
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Captain Craig
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Robinson
friends published |
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The Town Down the River
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Robinson
Rooselvelt influenced the publication of |
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master of dramatic monologue
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Robinson
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wrote long narratives about King Arthur's Court
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Robinson
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Merlin
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Robinson
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Lancelot
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Robinson
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Tristram
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Robinson
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"outer seriousness" and "inner humor"
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Robinson
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"Richard Cory"
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Robinson
handsome lonely man killed himself |
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"Miniver Cheevy"
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Robinson
wished for medevial times |
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"Mr. Flood's Party"
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Robinson
Flood is alone looking down on Tilbury Town talks to himself drunk "auld lang syne" |
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Masters
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born in Kansas
lived in Illinois lawyer in Chicago Spoon River- imaginary town in his stories |
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Spoon River Anthology
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Masters
tradgedies of small middle western towns |
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Across Spoon River
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Masters
autobiographical |
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"George Gray"
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Masters
from Spoon River Anthology was afraid to do anything |
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"Lucinda Matlock"
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Masters
from Spoon River Anthology had happy/bad times Davis-husband had 12 children 8 died enjoyed life died at 96 |
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"Fiddler Jones
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Masters
from Spoon River Anthology |
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"To Build a Fire"
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London
about the Yukon freezing cold temps husky dog 3ft of ice and 3 ft of snow lunch freezes broke through ice fleash burns thinks about killding dog for warmth runs around for warmth man sits down and dies |
