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... trilogy , a work , it has been said , ' comic in manner but full of terror in its implications ' . The essential situation is stated in symbolic terms in the first paragraph of the first novel of the sequence , The Shrimp and the ...
... trilogy , a work , it has been said , ' comic in manner but full of terror in its implications ' . The essential situation is stated in symbolic terms in the first paragraph of the first novel of the sequence , The Shrimp and the ...
Page 338
... trilogy , the lives of Harriet and Guy are overshadowed , dwarfed , robbed of significance , by the ebb and flow of the war being fought so near them . But this is not at all to deny that The Levant Trilogy is a tour de force of a very ...
... trilogy , the lives of Harriet and Guy are overshadowed , dwarfed , robbed of significance , by the ebb and flow of the war being fought so near them . But this is not at all to deny that The Levant Trilogy is a tour de force of a very ...
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... trilogy , and his technical devices , 143-8 ; his war novel , 143 ; political sympathies , 143-4 Dostoevsky , 2 , 32 , 158 , 313 Doting , 219 Eustace and Hilda , 253 , 255 , 256 Doughty , C. M. , quoted 172 Douglas , Norman , 41 , 260 ...
... trilogy , and his technical devices , 143-8 ; his war novel , 143 ; political sympathies , 143-4 Dostoevsky , 2 , 32 , 158 , 313 Doting , 219 Eustace and Hilda , 253 , 255 , 256 Doughty , C. M. , quoted 172 Douglas , Norman , 41 , 260 ...
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