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... ORWELL The other author we can associate with the early Amis is George Orwell . I have pointed out that the latter was the object of great admiration by John Wain and the whole group of their friends . But what makes Orwell relevant ...
... ORWELL The other author we can associate with the early Amis is George Orwell . I have pointed out that the latter was the object of great admiration by John Wain and the whole group of their friends . But what makes Orwell relevant ...
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... Orwell ( and unlike Waugh ) in its assertion of ' the normal ' at the cost of the sensitive , the ordinary at the expense of the extraordinary . We are prob- ably meant to imagine Lucky Jim in terms like those Bowling gives us about ...
... Orwell ( and unlike Waugh ) in its assertion of ' the normal ' at the cost of the sensitive , the ordinary at the expense of the extraordinary . We are prob- ably meant to imagine Lucky Jim in terms like those Bowling gives us about ...
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... Orwell pointed out in the 1940s that Kipling is the only English poet of our time who has added phrases to the ... Orwell , A Collection of Essays , p . 133 ) Orwell points out that these phrases are consciously clichés , for their users ...
... Orwell pointed out in the 1940s that Kipling is the only English poet of our time who has added phrases to the ... Orwell , A Collection of Essays , p . 133 ) Orwell points out that these phrases are consciously clichés , for their users ...
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1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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