Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... Gatsby ends with these words : Gatsby believed in the green light , the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us . It eluded us then , but that's no matter tomorrow we will run faster , stretch out our arms farther ... And ...
... Gatsby ends with these words : Gatsby believed in the green light , the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us . It eluded us then , but that's no matter tomorrow we will run faster , stretch out our arms farther ... And ...
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... Gatsby's social success . The names are all plausible , only slightly burlesqued and never invariably so , and their owners sufficiently documented in passing to establish them : ยท Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O ...
... Gatsby's social success . The names are all plausible , only slightly burlesqued and never invariably so , and their owners sufficiently documented in passing to establish them : ยท Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O ...
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... Gatsby , not the Buchanans , of whom Carroway says : They were careless people , Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness , or whatever it was that kept ...
... Gatsby , not the Buchanans , of whom Carroway says : They were careless people , Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness , or whatever it was that kept ...
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