Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time |
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Page 52
... writing of a novel , a novel to be called Resurrection . At the beginning of the book , the author reflects , of the novel he is writing : ' In the present I am held in a vice by the future . But if I strive to live in the future I am ...
... writing of a novel , a novel to be called Resurrection . At the beginning of the book , the author reflects , of the novel he is writing : ' In the present I am held in a vice by the future . But if I strive to live in the future I am ...
Page 139
... writing . The problems , of unemploy- ment , poverty and waste , were universal , and the enemy , as fascist ... writing , of the solidarity of writers of many countries , that was behind such magazines in England as John Lehmann's ...
... writing . The problems , of unemploy- ment , poverty and waste , were universal , and the enemy , as fascist ... writing , of the solidarity of writers of many countries , that was behind such magazines in England as John Lehmann's ...
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... writer who con- scientiously practises it is almost sure to be accused of " imitating 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 ...
... writer who con- scientiously practises it is almost sure to be accused of " imitating 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 ...
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