A Girl in WinterA Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine LInd, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart. |
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Philip Larkin. " Perhaps you should have stayed in bed this morning . ' " " Miss Green replaced her gloves with a ... perhaps he does . But he doesn't know how to behave . He shouldn't have any sort of authority . " Miss Green looked ...
Philip Larkin. " Perhaps you should have stayed in bed this morning . ' " " Miss Green replaced her gloves with a ... perhaps he does . But he doesn't know how to behave . He shouldn't have any sort of authority . " Miss Green looked ...
Page 69
... perhaps he will buy a motor - car one day . Then he will go much faster and much farther , and will have lots more ... perhaps you will move , perhaps you will die - it will all make no difference . He will go on writing about his ...
... perhaps he will buy a motor - car one day . Then he will go much faster and much farther , and will have lots more ... perhaps you will move , perhaps you will die - it will all make no difference . He will go on writing about his ...
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... perhaps there had been another reason that Katherine had missed . It had not fully died down when Jane listlessly ... perhaps a week or two , or perhaps for even as long as a musical comedy had run in London , but was now quite forgotten ...
... perhaps there had been another reason that Katherine had missed . It had not fully died down when Jane listlessly ... perhaps a week or two , or perhaps for even as long as a musical comedy had run in London , but was now quite forgotten ...
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