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Page 37
... seems to us to be identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families . The world itself is no longer this private property , hereditary and profitable - a sort of prey to be conquered rather than understood . To have a name ...
... seems to us to be identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families . The world itself is no longer this private property , hereditary and profitable - a sort of prey to be conquered rather than understood . To have a name ...
Page 43
... seem to - day rather naïve , an old - fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens or Surtees . Characters , it seems , are no longer objects of affection . The literary personality has gone down in the world . ( 1960 : PP . 7 ...
... seem to - day rather naïve , an old - fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens or Surtees . Characters , it seems , are no longer objects of affection . The literary personality has gone down in the world . ( 1960 : PP . 7 ...
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... seems in a vast comic strip , full of the denizens of the huge university that Barth has constructed as his alternative to the real world . The novel is , among many other things , the campus novel to end all , and may even mark the end ...
... seems in a vast comic strip , full of the denizens of the huge university that Barth has constructed as his alternative to the real world . The novel is , among many other things , the campus novel to end all , and may even mark the end ...
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