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... young American writers think that novels must be written , with a full con- centration of resources , young English writers seem merely to exude them . In this situation I am firmly on the side of the Americans . The school of creative ...
... young American writers think that novels must be written , with a full con- centration of resources , young English writers seem merely to exude them . In this situation I am firmly on the side of the Americans . The school of creative ...
Page 142
... young a man . This reduces Calvert to a set of stock epithets from a women's magazine serial ; in the rest of the novel , although he is presented with considerable elaboration , he never becomes more alive than this account might ...
... young a man . This reduces Calvert to a set of stock epithets from a women's magazine serial ; in the rest of the novel , although he is presented with considerable elaboration , he never becomes more alive than this account might ...
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... young man's picaresque adventures , in this case set in a shady country club in North Wales . There is a lack of conviction about the more conventionally narrative section , and it is evident that much of Johnson's energy went into the ...
... young man's picaresque adventures , in this case set in a shady country club in North Wales . There is a lack of conviction about the more conventionally narrative section , and it is evident that much of Johnson's energy went into the ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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