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Page 136
... turns from the lover to love another who also turns away . It is told with a beautiful economy and precision in a prose of singular purity that transmits both the ambience of the town and its inhabitants and the timeless quality which ...
... turns from the lover to love another who also turns away . It is told with a beautiful economy and precision in a prose of singular purity that transmits both the ambience of the town and its inhabitants and the timeless quality which ...
Page 202
... turn is interesting only because we know that one day Ralph Ernest Gorse will hang . They are not explored in depth ... turns to the novels Greene wrote in the thirties one sees immediately that they could have been written at no other ...
... turn is interesting only because we know that one day Ralph Ernest Gorse will hang . They are not explored in depth ... turns to the novels Greene wrote in the thirties one sees immediately that they could have been written at no other ...
Page 280
... turns red just as litmus paper does in contact with acid . In life he has been among us for some little time . One may speculate whence he derives . The Services , certainly , helped to make him ; but George Orwell , Dr Leavis and the ...
... turns red just as litmus paper does in contact with acid . In life he has been among us for some little time . One may speculate whence he derives . The Services , certainly , helped to make him ; but George Orwell , Dr Leavis and the ...
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