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Page 57
... achievements to offer the world apart from the strident trivialities of the pop scene . The process of decline has been ... achievement ' , whose transparent desire to cheer up the people is contemptibly obvious . The incompetence and ...
... achievements to offer the world apart from the strident trivialities of the pop scene . The process of decline has been ... achievement ' , whose transparent desire to cheer up the people is contemptibly obvious . The incompetence and ...
Page 121
... achievement and of its limitations . Since the work is one continuous novel , Powell's custom of publishing a fresh volume every two years , although there may be sound economic reasons for it , does not serve him particularly well ...
... achievement and of its limitations . Since the work is one continuous novel , Powell's custom of publishing a fresh volume every two years , although there may be sound economic reasons for it , does not serve him particularly well ...
Page 182
... achievement , is set in a shabby metropolis at some unspecified time in the future , where teenage gangs habitually terrorise the inhabitants . The story is told by one of them in the first person , in a superb piece of mimetic writing ...
... achievement , is set in a shabby metropolis at some unspecified time in the future , where teenage gangs habitually terrorise the inhabitants . The story is told by one of them in the first person , in a superb piece of mimetic writing ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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