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 198
... remains an extremely interesting novel . Plomer's second novel , Sado , about Japan , also remains interesting , but less so as a novel . As an artist in the rendering of scenes , Plomer is a virtuoso ; but with this goes an inability ...
... remains an extremely interesting novel . Plomer's second novel , Sado , about Japan , also remains interesting , but less so as a novel . As an artist in the rendering of scenes , Plomer is a virtuoso ; but with this goes an inability ...
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... remains of interest is the self- portrait , as one assumes it is , of the Communist agent and the revela- tion of the agonies of conscience attendant upon the idealist as Com- munist . This , expressed in the tug between Charing's ...
... remains of interest is the self- portrait , as one assumes it is , of the Communist agent and the revela- tion of the agonies of conscience attendant upon the idealist as Com- munist . This , expressed in the tug between Charing's ...
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... remains frozen in her postures of malign and self- deluded silliness . Wilson is fascinated by vulgarity , the gratuitous cruelty of offen- sively bad manners , and by the raw indecency , strictly the obscenity , which quarrels within a ...
... remains frozen in her postures of malign and self- deluded silliness . Wilson is fascinated by vulgarity , the gratuitous cruelty of offen- sively bad manners , and by the raw indecency , strictly the obscenity , which quarrels within a ...
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