Someone must put up five dollars for the license . ( On Sundays and holidays , fifteen dollars . The Clark County Courthouse issues marriage licenses at any time of the day or night except between noon and one in the afternoon , between ...
America’s golden age—from 1890 to 1940—included the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Their struggle for realism served as the basis for Kazin’s interpretation.
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Tough, Sweet & Stuffy: An Essay on Modern American Prose Styles
Many of these functional shifts lead to a compactness that Americans like: “We Americans will not use the more elaborate form when the simpler, more direct one is absolutely unambiguous and does the work without a hitch.
Joe Cronin , then managing the Red Sox , offered to bench him to safeguard his average , which was exactly .400 when rounded to the third decimal place . Williams said ( I forget where I read this ) that he did not want to become the ...
Contains rules and advice for improved effectiveness in written and oral English and a section explaining common grammatical errors
Ideal for Modern Poetry, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Introduction to Poetry courses, these two books provide a very extensive selection of vital twentieth-century poetry.
The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology