What does the E.H. in E. H. Shepard stand for?
The E.H. in E. H. Shepard stands for Ernest Howard.
Shepard illustrated A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books (1926-28) and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908).
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Who called the novel a “comic-epic poem in prose”?
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What Balzac novel did Fyodor Dostoyevsky translate into Russian?
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How many deceased inhabitants of Spoon River recite their verse epitaphs in Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology (1915)?
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