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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Page 256
... contemporary fiction , and , at first glance , everything might seem to have been against Hartley here . A nervous , diffident , timid , over - scrupulous , as it were professional delicate little boy who grows into a delicate , unsure ...
... contemporary fiction , and , at first glance , everything might seem to have been against Hartley here . A nervous , diffident , timid , over - scrupulous , as it were professional delicate little boy who grows into a delicate , unsure ...
Page 267
... contemporary fiction , so pathetically wants to satisfy . The two comedies apart , A Step to Silence is probably the most immediately accessible of Newby's novels . Its sequel , The Retreat , is less so . It begins in May 1940 , with ...
... contemporary fiction , so pathetically wants to satisfy . The two comedies apart , A Step to Silence is probably the most immediately accessible of Newby's novels . Its sequel , The Retreat , is less so . It begins in May 1940 , with ...
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... contemporary scene of Manhattan and even though his heroine , Holly Golightly , is very much a picaresque heroine . Her surname is plainly symbolic : she goes lightly through life ; and for all her experience — married at fourteen , a ...
... contemporary scene of Manhattan and even though his heroine , Holly Golightly , is very much a picaresque heroine . Her surname is plainly symbolic : she goes lightly through life ; and for all her experience — married at fourteen , a ...
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