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... written ' . Joyce bodies forth the very feel and texture of specific scenes , and atmospheres , as , for example , the evocation of early morning at the very beginning of the novel . And every sentence of description is as right , as ...
... written ' . Joyce bodies forth the very feel and texture of specific scenes , and atmospheres , as , for example , the evocation of early morning at the very beginning of the novel . And every sentence of description is as right , as ...
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... writing . It is a dangerous device that succeeds much less well in Gerhardi's later books . The most ambitious of these is ... written ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a ...
... writing . It is a dangerous device that succeeds much less well in Gerhardi's later books . The most ambitious of these is ... written ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a ...
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... written , many of them , as warnings to the future from the past ; but they were also written , one can't help feeling , as though what was written about could not possibly occur again . In this , they were idealistic and liberal in ...
... written , many of them , as warnings to the future from the past ; but they were also written , one can't help feeling , as though what was written about could not possibly occur again . In this , they were idealistic and liberal in ...
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