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Ponkapog Papers
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*Ponkapog Papers* is a collection of essays and literary reflections by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, named for his Massachusetts home. It suits readers interested in American literary essays and the informal, personal writing of late nineteenth-century New England authors.
A note on the date: the work was originally published in 1903; the 2006 date you list is almost certainly a later reprint edition.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, during which he published writers including Charles W. Chesnutt. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the "bad boy's book" subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry.
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