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... attempt at compulsion is to be made on her , is abducted by Lovelace . She loves him ; or would love him if only he ... attempts on her chastity , which she indignantly repulses . At last , he rapes her while drugged . After that ...
... attempt at compulsion is to be made on her , is abducted by Lovelace . She loves him ; or would love him if only he ... attempts on her chastity , which she indignantly repulses . At last , he rapes her while drugged . After that ...
Page 145
... attempts at heightened narrative , at a bastard poetry , in fact . They seem grotesquely inflated now . Round about 1849 ... attempt to use Sterne's methods in order to relate a perfectly conventional story of the estrangement of a ...
... attempts at heightened narrative , at a bastard poetry , in fact . They seem grotesquely inflated now . Round about 1849 ... attempt to use Sterne's methods in order to relate a perfectly conventional story of the estrangement of a ...
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... attempts , fumbling yet moving , of English and Indian - Mrs Moore , Adela Quested , Fielding on the one hand , Dr Aziz on the other — to make contact as human beings . They fail - the mysterious event in the Marabar Caves seems to ...
... attempts , fumbling yet moving , of English and Indian - Mrs Moore , Adela Quested , Fielding on the one hand , Dr Aziz on the other — to make contact as human beings . They fail - the mysterious event in the Marabar Caves seems to ...
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