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The Puritans

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Arlo Bates (1850-1918) was an American author, born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1876. He became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880-93) and afterward professor of English in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his most famous novels are: The Pagans (1884), The Wheel of Fire (1885), The Philistines (1888), The Puritans (1899) and Love in a Cloud (1900). Other works include: Berries of the Brier (1886), Sonnets in Shadow (1887), A Poet and his Self (1891), Told in the Gate (1892), The Torchbearers (1894), Under the Beech Tree (1899), Talks on Writing English (1897), Talks on the Study of Literature (1898), The Diary of a Saint (1902), Talks on Teaching Literature (1906) and The Intoxicated Ghost (1908).

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First published January 1, 1898

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Arlo Bates

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Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.

Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.

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