The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
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Page 40
... novel which would break the traditional mould of the English novel , which would have a new form and method , because she felt that the traditional form and method did not allow her to say what she wanted to say . Before she broke the ...
... novel which would break the traditional mould of the English novel , which would have a new form and method , because she felt that the traditional form and method did not allow her to say what she wanted to say . Before she broke the ...
Page 41
... novel . There was another thing which perhaps to some extent influenced her in this determination to write " a novel of fact " . She was oversensitive to any criticism , and one of the things most often said against her as novelist was ...
... novel . There was another thing which perhaps to some extent influenced her in this determination to write " a novel of fact " . She was oversensitive to any criticism , and one of the things most often said against her as novelist was ...
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... novel which he so often talked of writing . There was in this shrinking and shirking a mix- ture of mertal laziness and artistic cowardice . Alice suffered from the same kind of inhibitions . She was not as mentally lazy as Desmond ...
... novel which he so often talked of writing . There was in this shrinking and shirking a mix- ture of mertal laziness and artistic cowardice . Alice suffered from the same kind of inhibitions . She was not as mentally lazy as Desmond ...
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