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... father , and passively accepted something of an alliance with him against his brothers and sisters , and even against his mother . But he saw clearly that his father was causing his mother's death . His father was indeed ' not right ...
... father , and passively accepted something of an alliance with him against his brothers and sisters , and even against his mother . But he saw clearly that his father was causing his mother's death . His father was indeed ' not right ...
Page 103
... father and his friends ' fathers . And Decline and Fall , one of the most brilliant of Waugh's books even though so early ( published 1928 ) , is straightforwardly satirical against all fathers . When Paul Pennyfeather is sent down from ...
... father and his friends ' fathers . And Decline and Fall , one of the most brilliant of Waugh's books even though so early ( published 1928 ) , is straightforwardly satirical against all fathers . When Paul Pennyfeather is sent down from ...
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... father was a missionary ) of South Africa ; that of Jean Rhys of Dominica and Katherine Mansfield of New Zealand . There were of course variations in the individual cases ; in Mansfield's case the quite large variation that the father ...
... father was a missionary ) of South Africa ; that of Jean Rhys of Dominica and Katherine Mansfield of New Zealand . There were of course variations in the individual cases ; in Mansfield's case the quite large variation that the father ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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