This was a man who was neither afraid of what people might think of him nor emasculated by the need to succeed - and reached the highest literary level as a result.
Humorous literature on the highest literary level includes that of Cervantes in Spain, of Sterne, Lamb, and Thackeray in England, of Jean Paul in Germany, and of Rabelais, Montaigne, and Voltaire in France.
The number of people who have elevated the formulas of popular fiction to a higher literary level is surprisingly small.
"A lot of Afro-American readers are not folks with computers necessarily, even though the magazine was written at a fairly high literary level," he said.
Still, at a higher literary level there was Peter Carey's variation on "Great Expectations," retold from the point of view of Magwitch.
On a high literary level, not accessible to all children, was Le Petit Prince (1943, both French and English, The Little Prince) by the famous aviator-author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéry
In the mid-18th century the writer Charles-Simon Favart brought a higher literary level to the opéra-comique texts, and newly composed songs began to be added, eventually replacing the popular vaudevilles.
In 1949 he and author J. Francis McComas founded The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), which aimed to publish work at a higher literary level than had previously existed in the genre.
Argentinian magazine, The Magazine, recognized Drexler as a "master" at designing memorable melodies, and maintaining a high literary level while writing lyrics.
The age is characterized by a literary level decisively higher than that previously achieved; the creation of characters now permanent dwellers in the child's imagination (from Alice herself to Mary Poppins, and including Long John Silver, Mowgli, intelligent Mr. Toad, and if Hugh Lofting, despite his American residence, be accepted as English Dr.
By contrast, higher literary quality of autobiographies has been correlated with decreased risk of dementia [ 11].
