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... England was brought under Norman - French rule . The Normans did not bother to learn the native dialects , nor did they try to teach their own French to the natives . The result was that for nearly three hundred years England had two ...
... England was brought under Norman - French rule . The Normans did not bother to learn the native dialects , nor did they try to teach their own French to the natives . The result was that for nearly three hundred years England had two ...
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... England's policies to- ward the Colonies appeared anonymously , no one doubted that Franklin was the author . Only one man alive could write so scathingly and so well . His family and friends , too , help us know him : his devoted wife ...
... England's policies to- ward the Colonies appeared anonymously , no one doubted that Franklin was the author . Only one man alive could write so scathingly and so well . His family and friends , too , help us know him : his devoted wife ...
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... England for the books she read and the ideas she absorbed . It seems hardly surprising , then , that when England's literary tastes changed , America's changed soon after . By the 1820's and ' 30's , the change was clearly defined ...
... England for the books she read and the ideas she absorbed . It seems hardly surprising , then , that when England's literary tastes changed , America's changed soon after . By the 1820's and ' 30's , the change was clearly defined ...
Contents
APPROACHING AMERICAN | 1 |
Carl Sandburg Chicago | 34 |
William Saroyan The Oyster and the Pearl | 60 |
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