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... adventure ; and of these the former was serious - was what could be taught , could be put forward by men of letters in self - justification , when they measured themselves against men of science , men of politics , men of action - and ...
... adventure ; and of these the former was serious - was what could be taught , could be put forward by men of letters in self - justification , when they measured themselves against men of science , men of politics , men of action - and ...
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... adventure . This was what the doom of empire had meant to writers - their diminishment by Force , by Power - so they had denied adventure . At least , that was generally true . The year 1900 was indeed an exceptional moment in the ...
... adventure . This was what the doom of empire had meant to writers - their diminishment by Force , by Power - so they had denied adventure . At least , that was generally true . The year 1900 was indeed an exceptional moment in the ...
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... adventure story ; he / she would naturally turn , within fiction , to the ' serious ' domestic novel , as George ... adventure than by that of domestic fiction . [ 2 ] RUDYARD KIPLING : THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK The empire and the ...
... adventure story ; he / she would naturally turn , within fiction , to the ' serious ' domestic novel , as George ... adventure than by that of domestic fiction . [ 2 ] RUDYARD KIPLING : THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK The empire and the ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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