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Beginning in Gladness, Ending in Madness

1900–1950 was a golden age of literary eccentricity.

Stephen Akey
Stephen Akey
· 14 min read
Beginning in Gladness, Ending in Madness
Wallace Stevens, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladmir Nabokov.
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