Uncertain Chances

Uncertain Chances
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780199985814
ISBN-13 : 0199985812
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Book Synopsis Uncertain Chances by : Maurice S. Lee

Download or read book Uncertain Chances written by Maurice S. Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.


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