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... described himself as a contemporary of the Great Lakes of Africa , in the sense that he could have heard of their discovery in his cradle , and in the later 1860s he did his first bit of map - drawing by trans- ferring the outline of ...
... described himself as a contemporary of the Great Lakes of Africa , in the sense that he could have heard of their discovery in his cradle , and in the later 1860s he did his first bit of map - drawing by trans- ferring the outline of ...
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... described in Biblical - archaic language , so as to seem recurrent , cyclical , and in some sense blind , unconscious . This period in the family history is made to correspond with the pre - industrial and pre - intellectual period in ...
... described in Biblical - archaic language , so as to seem recurrent , cyclical , and in some sense blind , unconscious . This period in the family history is made to correspond with the pre - industrial and pre - intellectual period in ...
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... described much less critically and is described from the erotic point of view . Lessing's description of sexual and carnal behaviour and consciousness is more naturalistic than Lawrence's ; and in harmony with this , Martha's lover ...
... described much less critically and is described from the erotic point of view . Lessing's description of sexual and carnal behaviour and consciousness is more naturalistic than Lawrence's ; and in harmony with this , Martha's lover ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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