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Page 104
... Waugh's Sword of Honour and Anthony Powell's still in- complete roman fleuve The Music of Time , seem to me the major achievements of post - war English fiction . In his early comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting ...
... Waugh's Sword of Honour and Anthony Powell's still in- complete roman fleuve The Music of Time , seem to me the major achievements of post - war English fiction . In his early comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting ...
Page 112
... Waugh was attempting an elaborate Proustian recreation of time past for which his talents were fundamentally ill - suited . The book's elaborate metaphorical structure is superimposed rather than integral , and the absence of Waugh's ...
... Waugh was attempting an elaborate Proustian recreation of time past for which his talents were fundamentally ill - suited . The book's elaborate metaphorical structure is superimposed rather than integral , and the absence of Waugh's ...
Page 118
... Waugh sourly described it as ' an obituary of the Roman Catholic Church in England as it had existed for many ... Waugh's work : farce , social comedy and a real sense of the importance of tradition all conveyed in his impeccably ...
... Waugh sourly described it as ' an obituary of the Roman Catholic Church in England as it had existed for many ... Waugh's work : farce , social comedy and a real sense of the importance of tradition all conveyed in his impeccably ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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