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... early comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting anticipations of the American comic - apocalyptic , or black comic , manner ; indeed , the world war at the end of Vile Bodies is a choice example of a global fictional apocalypse ...
... early comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting anticipations of the American comic - apocalyptic , or black comic , manner ; indeed , the world war at the end of Vile Bodies is a choice example of a global fictional apocalypse ...
Page 118
... early thirties , and they are usually to Powell's disadvantage . This is unfortunate ; to speak for myself , I admire both writers immensely , and while seeing simi- larities in their material and narrative manner , I am more and more ...
... early thirties , and they are usually to Powell's disadvantage . This is unfortunate ; to speak for myself , I admire both writers immensely , and while seeing simi- larities in their material and narrative manner , I am more and more ...
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... early books have , even when its sociological implications , of which so much was made in the fifties , have dwindled into a historical footnote . On its first appearance Lucky Jim was assumed to inherit the comic manner of the early ...
... early books have , even when its sociological implications , of which so much was made in the fifties , have dwindled into a historical footnote . On its first appearance Lucky Jim was assumed to inherit the comic manner of the early ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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