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He was the youngest of fourteen siblings, the son of a Methodist minister, dropped out of college at nineteen, and wrote America’s first wholly naturalist novel.

In Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” which of the following best describes Jim Smiley?

In part, this debut novel of Dreier’s was considered controversial because of the social transgressions of its characters who feel no remorse and largely escape punishment.

These two individuals greatly influenced the literary period known as naturalism:

This naturalist writer published his first novel under the pseudonym Johnson Smith.

This writer was known as “the Dean of American Letters.”

This novel was written in a burst of energy in two days!

He defended a prostitute who had been harassed by police, fled to Florida, and met Cora Taylor, a madame of a brothel, with whom he lived for the rest of his life:

Bret Harte’s success rested on his ability to portray distinctive characters whom he connected to the increasingly urban cites of the East coast.

The terms free will and determinism are interchangeable.