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Page 114
... lives and thinks wholly in terms of clerkliness . We move north , to the border , to Osbaldistone Hall , the family seat , where the family of Frank's uncle , Sir Hildebrand , consume an existence that can have changed scarcely at all ...
... lives and thinks wholly in terms of clerkliness . We move north , to the border , to Osbaldistone Hall , the family seat , where the family of Frank's uncle , Sir Hildebrand , consume an existence that can have changed scarcely at all ...
Page 297
... lives take are dictated by the nature of the particular society in which they have their existence . Nostromo is a political novel in the profoundest meaning of the word and this is the index of Conrad's achievement - it may stand as a ...
... lives take are dictated by the nature of the particular society in which they have their existence . Nostromo is a political novel in the profoundest meaning of the word and this is the index of Conrad's achievement - it may stand as a ...
Page 315
... lives like the lives of us good people - like the lives of the Ashburnhams , of the Dowells , of the Ruffords- broken , tumultuous , agonized , and unromantic lives , periods punctuated by screams , by imbecilities , by deaths , by ...
... lives like the lives of us good people - like the lives of the Ashburnhams , of the Dowells , of the Ruffords- broken , tumultuous , agonized , and unromantic lives , periods punctuated by screams , by imbecilities , by deaths , by ...
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