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Modernism and disciplinary history: On H. G. Wells and T. S. Eliot.(Critical Essay)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 20040922
Author:Fluet, Lisa 

 
        Gutman stopped whispering. His sleek dark eyes examined Spade's 
     face, which was placid. The fat man asked: "Well, sir, what do you 
     think of that?" 
        "I don't know." 
        The fat man smiled complacently. "These are facts, historical 
     facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells's history, but history 
     nevertheless." 
     --Dashiell Hammett (124)

"Mr. Wells's history" serves as a casual point of reference in Caspar Gutman's account of the appearance and subsequent disappearance of the Maltese falcon from recorded history. As he explains to ...

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