Re: RARA-AVIS: Hammett and Hemingway

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Apart from journalistic influences, I've often wondered whether they weren't both to some extent influenced by Twain. A lot of writers of that kind, of that era, admitted they found Twain's plainness and casual style effective.

Marianne Macdonald

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