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... fiction has been the exploration of what it means to be an American , expressed often in solitary heroes with a whole world to roam over , the great overriding preoccupation of English fiction throughout its history has been class ...
... fiction has been the exploration of what it means to be an American , expressed often in solitary heroes with a whole world to roam over , the great overriding preoccupation of English fiction throughout its history has been class ...
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... fiction has done . George Orwell's influence on the younger English writers of the past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has ...
... fiction has done . George Orwell's influence on the younger English writers of the past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has ...
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... fiction , and , at first glance , everything might seem to have been against Hartley here . A nervous , diffident , timid , over - scrupulous , as it were professional delicate little boy who grows into a delicate , unsure , charming ...
... fiction , and , at first glance , everything might seem to have been against Hartley here . A nervous , diffident , timid , over - scrupulous , as it were professional delicate little boy who grows into a delicate , unsure , charming ...
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