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Page 75
... shows that Fowles has literary gifts far in advance of most young English novelists , just as his book of aphoristic reflections , The Aristos , shows an unusual , speculative intelligence . Yet the novel is vitiated by its basic ...
... shows that Fowles has literary gifts far in advance of most young English novelists , just as his book of aphoristic reflections , The Aristos , shows an unusual , speculative intelligence . Yet the novel is vitiated by its basic ...
Page 98
... shows the possibilities of dehumanisation , of people being transformed into something else . One sees it in chapter 1 , with Benny Profane's vision of his own eventual dismemberment : ' if he kept going down that street , not only his ...
... shows the possibilities of dehumanisation , of people being transformed into something else . One sees it in chapter 1 , with Benny Profane's vision of his own eventual dismemberment : ' if he kept going down that street , not only his ...
Page 158
... shows Sylvia as a child of ten on an East Anglian farm , bullied by her boorish parents and weighed down with the responsibility of looking after a brood of younger siblings . She is at first patronised , then victimised by some middle ...
... shows Sylvia as a child of ten on an East Anglian farm , bullied by her boorish parents and weighed down with the responsibility of looking after a brood of younger siblings . She is at first patronised , then victimised by some middle ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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