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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... gives a party , a man who has been in love with her comes back from India , a young man suffering from war neurosis commits suicide . But this is enough to enable Virginia Woolf to show us life as in a state of constant creation ...
... gives a party , a man who has been in love with her comes back from India , a young man suffering from war neurosis commits suicide . But this is enough to enable Virginia Woolf to show us life as in a state of constant creation ...
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... gives , of imbecility as a result of genera- tions of inbreeding . Ellen Glasgow gives us the knowledge of the South , its history and people that Faulkner assumes in us . In fiction for the past thirty years the South has I 12 ...
... gives , of imbecility as a result of genera- tions of inbreeding . Ellen Glasgow gives us the knowledge of the South , its history and people that Faulkner assumes in us . In fiction for the past thirty years the South has I 12 ...
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... gives him half an hour to leave his house before it is burnt , " There is nothing that you can give to me , Sir ' , he retorts - and goes away and hangs himself . Major Buchan's very fineness of breeding makes him defenceless against a ...
... gives him half an hour to leave his house before it is burnt , " There is nothing that you can give to me , Sir ' , he retorts - and goes away and hangs himself . Major Buchan's very fineness of breeding makes him defenceless against a ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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