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Page 119
... later volumes of The Music of Time this world has been reinforced by businessmen and - during the war years by soldiers , but it has never lost its basic flavour . Apart from its intrinsic merits , Afternoon Men shows the essence of ...
... later volumes of The Music of Time this world has been reinforced by businessmen and - during the war years by soldiers , but it has never lost its basic flavour . Apart from its intrinsic merits , Afternoon Men shows the essence of ...
Page 187
... later novels , which are numerous , are frequently entertaining , though only one of them Nothing like the Sun seems to me to have achieved a distinction approaching that of the books I have discussed . Yet with a novelist so fertile of ...
... later novels , which are numerous , are frequently entertaining , though only one of them Nothing like the Sun seems to me to have achieved a distinction approaching that of the books I have discussed . Yet with a novelist so fertile of ...
Page 219
... later novels of Muriel Spark . It is noticeable , too , that Dan Jacobson who established his repu- tation as a mainstream realist , a mode which he used very impressively in The Beginners ( 1966 ) , later turned to forms of ...
... later novels of Muriel Spark . It is noticeable , too , that Dan Jacobson who established his repu- tation as a mainstream realist , a mode which he used very impressively in The Beginners ( 1966 ) , later turned to forms of ...
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