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Page 12
... contemporary novel is not doing badly . Soon , when we least expect it , it will do not merely better but magnificently . Any one of us may , astonishingly , prove the vehicle of some great un- expected masterpiece which will burn up ...
... contemporary novel is not doing badly . Soon , when we least expect it , it will do not merely better but magnificently . Any one of us may , astonishingly , prove the vehicle of some great un- expected masterpiece which will burn up ...
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... contemporary novelist ; he has inherited a form whose principal characteristic is novelty , or stylistic dynamism ... contemporary avant - garde , William Bur- roughs at least The Naked Lunch looks very like a detailed extra- polation ...
... contemporary novelist ; he has inherited a form whose principal characteristic is novelty , or stylistic dynamism ... contemporary avant - garde , William Bur- roughs at least The Naked Lunch looks very like a detailed extra- polation ...
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... contemporary novelist who could be read with unaffected and wholehearted interest , the only one who never had to be apologised for or excused on the grounds of changing taste . And how enviable to live in the world of his novels ...
... contemporary novelist who could be read with unaffected and wholehearted interest , the only one who never had to be apologised for or excused on the grounds of changing taste . And how enviable to live in the world of his novels ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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