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... career in art - work for the empire carried John Lock- wood Kipling from humble beginnings to the dining table of the Viceroy ; he created the banners for the Durbar at which Victoria was declared Empress , he was in charge of the India ...
... career in art - work for the empire carried John Lock- wood Kipling from humble beginnings to the dining table of the Viceroy ; he created the banners for the Durbar at which Victoria was declared Empress , he was in charge of the India ...
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... career went towards in - jokes for the master - class . THE ANTI - DEATH LEAGUE This is what we see again in the longest and most ambitious of his novels , The Anti - Death League , which also announces an allegiance to Waugh , and to ...
... career went towards in - jokes for the master - class . THE ANTI - DEATH LEAGUE This is what we see again in the longest and most ambitious of his novels , The Anti - Death League , which also announces an allegiance to Waugh , and to ...
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... career is by no means unusual . It falls into the pattern . The career of the colonial politician is short and ends brutally . ' ( p . 10 ) The book's title refers to an inauthen- ticity in him and men like him , beginning in their ...
... career is by no means unusual . It falls into the pattern . The career of the colonial politician is short and ends brutally . ' ( p . 10 ) The book's title refers to an inauthen- ticity in him and men like him , beginning in their ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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