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Page 52
... theme of the novel being written ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a mystical experience ; he wakes up to find himself detached from his body , free of the bounds of space ...
... theme of the novel being written ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a mystical experience ; he wakes up to find himself detached from his body , free of the bounds of space ...
Page 116
... theme is the degeneration of a Southern family , the Compsons , who have been prominent in Jefferson , Mississippi , since before the days of the Civil War . But it is scarcely possible to speak of theme as divorced from the form of the ...
... theme is the degeneration of a Southern family , the Compsons , who have been prominent in Jefferson , Mississippi , since before the days of the Civil War . But it is scarcely possible to speak of theme as divorced from the form of the ...
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... theme at least , Lady Haslam's tyranny over her family through hypochondria , is already evident . What remains remarkable , of course , is that she is able to handle her themes at their greatest and darkest moment of revelation , when ...
... theme at least , Lady Haslam's tyranny over her family through hypochondria , is already evident . What remains remarkable , of course , is that she is able to handle her themes at their greatest and darkest moment of revelation , when ...
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