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 274
... taken for granted , for example , the inherent superiority of the American way of life or the infallible disinterestedness of Marxism , and he cries , ' This is none of I ' , knowing no longer who he is , and with relief accepts an ...
... taken for granted , for example , the inherent superiority of the American way of life or the infallible disinterestedness of Marxism , and he cries , ' This is none of I ' , knowing no longer who he is , and with relief accepts an ...
Page 283
... taken by some reviewers as a satire on the rationalistic values of Bloomsbury . It might equally well be taken , in its evocation of the luxury , comfort and connoisseurship attendant on the lives of the cultured upper middle - class ...
... taken by some reviewers as a satire on the rationalistic values of Bloomsbury . It might equally well be taken , in its evocation of the luxury , comfort and connoisseurship attendant on the lives of the cultured upper middle - class ...
Page 313
... taken together no doubt account for the regularity with which re- viewers in the presence of their novels murmur ' James ' or ' Edith Wharton ' . Attractive writers though they are , this is very much to overpraise . Auchincloss , it ...
... taken together no doubt account for the regularity with which re- viewers in the presence of their novels murmur ' James ' or ' Edith Wharton ' . Attractive writers though they are , this is very much to overpraise . Auchincloss , it ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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