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At his house in London one would meet almost everybody worth while in English literary, public, and social life In the hours of conversation with him, when I was posting him on the latest developments in America, his comments upon the leading characters of the time were most racy and witty.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or dealing with literature: literary criticism.
  2. adjective Of or relating to writers or the profession of literature: literary circles.
  3. adjective Versed in or fond of literature or learning.
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  • After a last letter to a close friend, sent from there December 26, 1913, he vanished without a trace, becoming one of the most famous disappearances in American literary history. —  DC's
  • At 19, lured by the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and early '70s, he and Robin moved to Buenos Aires, where he taught himself to be a reporter. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • With a single slim volume, published when he was in his seventies, Norman Maclean secured his place in American literary history. —  The Chicago Blog
  • The girl speaking was Anne Desclos, better known in French literary circles as the journalist and critic Dominique Aury, and the man was Jean Paulhan, director of the literary publication —  BlogHer
  • In this centennial year of Italian Futurism's founding, this small and lively show reveals the immediate reverberations of that movement in Russian literary and artistic circles. —  artforum.com
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  1. Latin litterārius, of reading and writing, from littera, lītera, letter; see letter.

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  1. = French littéraire = Spanish literario = Portuguese litterario = Italian letterario, from Latin litterarius, literarius, belonging to letters or learning, from Latin littera, litera, letter, plural letters, learning: see letter, n.
 

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