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... possible speed ? Go back and tell those who sent you , that the wind has shifted since we weighed anchor , and that we are obliged to make very short trips in tacking , by reason of the narrowness of the channel ; and that as we lie ...
... possible speed ? Go back and tell those who sent you , that the wind has shifted since we weighed anchor , and that we are obliged to make very short trips in tacking , by reason of the narrowness of the channel ; and that as we lie ...
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... possible . His first novel , Vivian Grey , published in 1826 , when its author was only twenty - two , was a prophetic work . The theme is the incursion into politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out of his teens whose first ...
... possible . His first novel , Vivian Grey , published in 1826 , when its author was only twenty - two , was a prophetic work . The theme is the incursion into politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out of his teens whose first ...
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... possible meanings , references , parallels , correspondences so artfully embedded in the text . Will interest in the novel then be exhausted ? If it is , Ulysses will have been proved a gigantic stillbirth . But it may be that the real ...
... possible meanings , references , parallels , correspondences so artfully embedded in the text . Will interest in the novel then be exhausted ? If it is , Ulysses will have been proved a gigantic stillbirth . But it may be that the real ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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