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... trilogy , comprising A Question of Upbringing , A Buyer's Market and The Acceptance World , covers the formative years of Jenkins's adolescence and young manhood : we see him first , in the year 1921 , at his public school , we follow ...
... trilogy , comprising A Question of Upbringing , A Buyer's Market and The Acceptance World , covers the formative years of Jenkins's adolescence and young manhood : we see him first , in the year 1921 , at his public school , we follow ...
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... Trilogy , which in the American edition is called , more elegantly and suggestively , The Long Day Wanes . Compared with his later novels , this is a farily unsophisticated piece of writing , in which Burgess was 178 THE SITUATION OF ...
... Trilogy , which in the American edition is called , more elegantly and suggestively , The Long Day Wanes . Compared with his later novels , this is a farily unsophisticated piece of writing , in which Burgess was 178 THE SITUATION OF ...
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... Trilogy deals with a country shaken not only by these inner racial tensions , but also afflicted by active violence from the communist terrorism of the mid - fifties ; at the same time it is preparing for independence , and Victor ...
... Trilogy deals with a country shaken not only by these inner racial tensions , but also afflicted by active violence from the communist terrorism of the mid - fifties ; at the same time it is preparing for independence , and Victor ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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