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Gone With The Wind: Still one of the greatest books ever?
I wasn't claiming James Fenimore Cooper was a great writer, only that he was superior to Charles Reade. I know Mark Twain lampooned his style of writing as overly wordy, but Cooper was nevertheless the most profilic and widely read American author of the first half of the 19th century. Despite his shortcomings, he's been called by some, including the Britannica Web site, "the first major American novelist." https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Fenimore-Cooper Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, had an article titled, "In Defense of Cooper." The suheading stated, "James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain." https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/septemberoctober/feature/in-defense-cooper The first paragraph of the article notes, "Almost single-handedly in the 1820s, Cooper invented the key forms of American fiction—the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary romance—forms that set a suggestive agenda for subsequent writers, even for Hollywood and television. In producing and shrewdly marketing fully 10 percent of all American novels in the 1820s, most of them best sellers, Cooper made it possible for other aspiring authors to earn a living by their writings. Cooper can be said to have invented not just an assortment of literary genres but the very career of the American writer." You can read more academic assessment and critical essays of Cooper at A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper. https://academic.oup.com/book/48372?login=false Those academics don't regard his writing as a joke or laughingstock. -
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Thai man loses 70,000 baht after scammers use fake ID to access his credit card
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It's Amazing How Happy and Positive Everything Seems Since Trump Was Sworn In!
Of course everybody is happy as "he" promesed everything to everybody. Ranging from auto workers to his billionaire buddies. -
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Thai thief poses as jogger to steal over 1 million baht from luxury home
No security guard? So it was the Gated Community just in name. Without anyone watching the entrance 24/7, it is just the same as any other houses. -
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Toxic air: Thailand considers work from home nationwide
Yes, this is the "most" correct answer and how things will most likely turn out. -
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