The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in LiteratureVanguard Press, 1972 - 259 pages Miss Oates examines the work of such writers as Chekhov, Melville, Yeats, and Toresco in this study. |
Contents
Melville | 59 |
Tragic and Comic Visions | 85 |
Chekhov and | 115 |
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