Author Name: Bridgman, Richard
Title: The Colloquial Style In America
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: NY Oxford University Press 1968
ISBN Number: 0195004949 / 9780195004946
Seller ID: 10587
254 pages; Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Bright boards with silver lettering. Inscribed on front fly-leaf - I believe by the author, but I cannot verify the signature. Signed Dick. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has light shelf rub at edges. Sunned spine. Now in protective sleeve. A study of changes in the American Style of writing. It focuses upon the trials, strategy, mis-steps of Henry James and Mark Twain, then follows the influence of their prose on Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, and Ring Lardner, until it culminated on the early work of Ernest Hemingway.
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