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 52
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
Page 238
... past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has influenced them . It has been much more the idea of Orwell himself and what he stood for ...
... past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has influenced them . It has been much more the idea of Orwell himself and what he stood for ...
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... past with which I had no contact at all ' . And then , sometimes , in association with Kingisbyres I would suddenly have , almost overwhelmingly , the sense of the past , not so much a particular episode or period of history , as of ...
... past with which I had no contact at all ' . And then , sometimes , in association with Kingisbyres I would suddenly have , almost overwhelmingly , the sense of the past , not so much a particular episode or period of history , as of ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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