Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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Page 41
... expression . Its nature makes Firbank , at first sight , a marginal figure in the history of recent fiction ; yet , when we look closer and look at him in the context of his time , of the nineties in which he grew up and the decade from ...
... expression . Its nature makes Firbank , at first sight , a marginal figure in the history of recent fiction ; yet , when we look closer and look at him in the context of his time , of the nineties in which he grew up and the decade from ...
Page 96
... expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on proclama- tions that were slapped up by billposters over other ...
... expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on proclama- tions that were slapped up by billposters over other ...
Page 182
... expression in an acte gratuit . But that gets us little further ; English's behaviour is as much a mystery to himself and to his wife and friends as it is to the reader . So there is not much scope for interest in English ; he is a snob ...
... expression in an acte gratuit . But that gets us little further ; English's behaviour is as much a mystery to himself and to his wife and friends as it is to the reader . So there is not much scope for interest in English ; he is a snob ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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