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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... perhaps into the revelation of their true qualities . Thus one officer , Rabb , ' an efficient and popular officer ... Perhaps not . Perhaps no one could have borne that foreknowledge . But passing instead from each known moment only to ...
... perhaps into the revelation of their true qualities . Thus one officer , Rabb , ' an efficient and popular officer ... Perhaps not . Perhaps no one could have borne that foreknowledge . But passing instead from each known moment only to ...
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... perhaps , by their capacity to dream , though what they dream can never be fulfilled in reality . The dream is the same as that which motivates the ' Okies ' in The Grapes of Wrath , the dispossessed sharecroppers of Oklahoma who pour ...
... perhaps , by their capacity to dream , though what they dream can never be fulfilled in reality . The dream is the same as that which motivates the ' Okies ' in The Grapes of Wrath , the dispossessed sharecroppers of Oklahoma who pour ...
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... perhaps twenty families and twenty cars were there . They are group - man , a species in which the individual counts for as much and as little as an individual cell in the human body . And this impression of group - man is further ...
... perhaps twenty families and twenty cars were there . They are group - man , a species in which the individual counts for as much and as little as an individual cell in the human body . And this impression of group - man is further ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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