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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In The Fox in the Attic, we are in 1923, with, as the bewildered, innocent,
uncomprehending observer of what is narrated, Augustine Penry-Herbert, a
young Welsh squire just down from Oxford. Withdrawn, haunted by the war which
he has ...
In The Fox in the Attic, we are in 1923, with, as the bewildered, innocent,
uncomprehending observer of what is narrated, Augustine Penry-Herbert, a
young Welsh squire just down from Oxford. Withdrawn, haunted by the war which
he has ...
Page 125
Why cannot life change without tangling the lives of innocent persons? Why do
innocent persons cease their innocence and become violent and evil in
themselves that such great changes may take place? This device of the narrator
who ...
Why cannot life change without tangling the lives of innocent persons? Why do
innocent persons cease their innocence and become violent and evil in
themselves that such great changes may take place? This device of the narrator
who ...
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Golding's subject is the displacement of Neanderthal Man by Homo sapiens, but
whereas Wells saw Neanderthal as brutish, cannibalistic, the source, perhaps, of
the ogre in folk-lore, Golding imagines him as innocent and gentle, who lived in ...
Golding's subject is the displacement of Neanderthal Man by Homo sapiens, but
whereas Wells saw Neanderthal as brutish, cannibalistic, the source, perhaps, of
the ogre in folk-lore, Golding imagines him as innocent and gentle, who lived in ...
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Contents
British i | 21 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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| Title | Tradition and dream: the English and American novel from the twenties to our time Phoenix House publication |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 346 pages |
| Subjects | American fiction English fiction |
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