The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties"A study of six novelists of the nineteen-thirties : Edward Upward, Rex Warner, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell." -- Preface. |
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... Church Times , and expressing his pleasure in seeing that there was ' life in the old dog yet – I mean in the poor old C. of E.'12 His enthusiasm soon waned , however , when he felt the paper was descending to the level of ' the Romans ...
... Church Times , and expressing his pleasure in seeing that there was ' life in the old dog yet – I mean in the poor old C. of E.'12 His enthusiasm soon waned , however , when he felt the paper was descending to the level of ' the Romans ...
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... Church may have to offer , but his approach is furtive and uncertain : ' A church claimed him . The darkness , the glow of the sanctuary lamp drew him more than food . It was Lutheran , of course , but it had the genuine air of plaster ...
... Church may have to offer , but his approach is furtive and uncertain : ' A church claimed him . The darkness , the glow of the sanctuary lamp drew him more than food . It was Lutheran , of course , but it had the genuine air of plaster ...
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... churches and in other references to religion . The church which seems to offer sanctuary to Minty is very like the church which offers temporary comfort to Oliver Chant in The Name of Action . Despite Greene's own declarations that his ...
... churches and in other references to religion . The church which seems to offer sanctuary to Minty is very like the church which offers temporary comfort to Oliver Chant in The Name of Action . Despite Greene's own declarations that his ...
Contents
A Common Background | 1 |
Fiction and Belief | 18 |
The Catholic Novelist | 62 |
Copyright | |
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