Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction by Walker Evans, James Agee

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction

Walker Evans, James Agee

818 pages first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction classics history emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909–1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent...

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Moods

reflective 100%
challenging 62%
dark 25%
emotional 25%
informative 25%
sad 25%
adventurous 12%
inspiring 12%

Pace

slow 88%
medium 11%

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3.71

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