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... Jane Austen , tends still further to remove Powys's moralities from the actual world by reference to which the moralities must be judged . At times , Powys's style becomes intolerably arch and coy , especially where sex is concerned ...
... Jane Austen , tends still further to remove Powys's moralities from the actual world by reference to which the moralities must be judged . At times , Powys's style becomes intolerably arch and coy , especially where sex is concerned ...
Page 191
... Jane Austen , she knows her limits and never transgresses them . Jane Austen , though more remotely , is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen also , whose first book , Encounters , a THE THIRTIES : BRITISH 191.
... Jane Austen , she knows her limits and never transgresses them . Jane Austen , though more remotely , is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen also , whose first book , Encounters , a THE THIRTIES : BRITISH 191.
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... Jane Austen " whether their minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether ...
... Jane Austen " whether their minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether ...
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