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Tag Archives: quotations
One of my favorite passages from Huckleberry Finn
Sometimes we’d have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark — which was a candle in a cabin window; and sometimes on the … Continue reading
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Tagged america, American literature, American south, books, childhood, Huckleberry Finn, literature, Mark Twain, Mississippi, quotations, quotes, reading, river, summer, the south
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A Taste of Augie March
Following are some of my favorite quotes from that great American novel, Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. I studied this novel with Professor Doug Bauer at Bennington College in Fall 2010, in his class “Malamud, Bellow, & Roth” … Continue reading
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Tagged america, American literature, books, literature, quotations, quotes, reading, Saul Bellow
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Big Two-Hearted River 