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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... scarcely be questioned ; and as an example of his genius working at length one might choose the scene in A Glastonbury Romance in which Philip Crow seduces Persephone Spear in the caves of Wookey Hole beside the subterranean river . Yet ...
... scarcely be questioned ; and as an example of his genius working at length one might choose the scene in A Glastonbury Romance in which Philip Crow seduces Persephone Spear in the caves of Wookey Hole beside the subterranean river . Yet ...
Page 161
... scarcely exists but he is , as it were , the reflective centre of the novel , and it can scarcely be doubted that his values are Steinbeck's . It is Burton who says to Nolan : THE THIRTIES : AMERICAN 161.
... scarcely exists but he is , as it were , the reflective centre of the novel , and it can scarcely be doubted that his values are Steinbeck's . It is Burton who says to Nolan : THE THIRTIES : AMERICAN 161.
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... scarcely more about Inge than we did at the beginning : she 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 ...
... scarcely more about Inge than we did at the beginning : she 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 ...
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