Word: pilgrim
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Among the 70 titles: Shakespeare's Complete Works, Tolstoy's War and Peace, e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, Don Quixote, The Education of Henry Adams, St. Augustine's Confessions, Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis Carroll's Collected Stories, The Origin of Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction...
County, Mo., in 1865. Little Jack Pershing was five. People were singing Julia Ward Howe's new Battle Hymn of the Republic and Pershing watched the ragged soldiers come back from Appomattox. His father was sometimes farmer, sometimes section foreman who raised his children on hard chores and Pilgrim's Progress...
...other novelist involved in the show was the 42-year-old, Wisconsin-born, Left Banker-that-was, Glenway Wescott (The Grandmothers, The Pilgrim Hawk). For the catalogue of the Remarque collection he wrote an eminently quotable introduction...
...earthly minions, has Philologist Ransom carried off to Mars by a couple of scheming scientists. This well-worn device is intended to provide readers with an astronomically detached view of life on earth. The result is sub-Wellsian fantasy, tinted with irony and as pitted with morality as Pilgrim's Progress. The findings are not flattering to earthworms, some of whom may feel that Elwin Ransom might have got just as far without going such a distance...
Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...