The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Book of Prefaces, by H. L. Mencken

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place of Dreiser in our literature is frequently challenged, and often violently, but never successfully. As the years pass his solid dignity as an artist becomes more and more ev

John A. Clark's Gleanings by the Way - excerpts#1

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with every species of literature, preface writing has quite fallen into desuetude; not improbably for the very solid and satisfactory reason that it would be a most difficult, per

1885 Edmund Clarence Stedman: The Twilight of the Poets

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its place with standard literature; its authors won the interest, even the affection, of an attentive public. The close of the term involved may not have been so clear to us. Lite

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