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Author: Octave Mirbeau. Préface de Pierre Michel
Publisher: Éditions du Boucher
Keywords: gentilhomme
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2003
ISBN-10: 2848240628
ISBN-13: 9782848240626
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Author: Henry Gratton
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: chinaman
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-10: 1429005394
ISBN-13: 9781429005395
Compared, in the Preface by Henry Pearson Gratton, to Mrs. Trollope's "The Domestic Manners of the American's, this work is applauded for its "caustic [and] amusing treatment of America and Americans." Selected from a series of letters written to a friend in China between 1892 and 1902, the observations contained within this 1904 work showcase the anonymous man's observations of American manners and mores. In the juxtaoposition of Gratton's Preface with the passages written by the unnamed Chinaman, one can see the prejudices each countryman held for members of the other's society. This is not
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Author: Henry Gratton
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: chinaman
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-01-31
ISBN-10: 1429005386
ISBN-13: 9781429005388
Compared, in the Preface by Henry Pearson Gratton, to Mrs. Trollope's "The Domestic Manners of the American's, this work is applauded for its "caustic [and] amusing treatment of America and Americans." Selected from a series of letters written to a friend in China between 1892 and 1902, the observations contained within this 1904 work showcase the anonymous man's observations of American manners and mores. In the juxtaoposition of Gratton's Preface with the passages written by the unnamed Chinaman, one can see the prejudices each countryman held for members of the other's society. This is not
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Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
Keywords: thinkers, modern, preface, miscellany
Number of Pages: 650
Published: 2007-12-21
ISBN-10: 078122361X
ISBN-13: 9780781223614
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