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Page 65
... described in Biblical - archaic language , so as to seem recurrent , cyclical , and in some sense blind , unconscious . This period in the family history is made to correspond with the pre - industrial and pre - intellectual period in ...
... described in Biblical - archaic language , so as to seem recurrent , cyclical , and in some sense blind , unconscious . This period in the family history is made to correspond with the pre - industrial and pre - intellectual period in ...
Page 131
... described before ; but the rest of the book has no use for that . This second volume is much more simply a comic fantasy than Men at Arms , much closer to Waugh's entertainments . And though the third volume , Unconditional Surrender ...
... described before ; but the rest of the book has no use for that . This second volume is much more simply a comic fantasy than Men at Arms , much closer to Waugh's entertainments . And though the third volume , Unconditional Surrender ...
Page 182
... described much less critically and is described from the erotic point of view . Lessing's description of sexual and carnal behaviour and consciousness is more naturalistic than Lawrence's ; and in harmony with this , Martha's lover ...
... described much less critically and is described from the erotic point of view . Lessing's description of sexual and carnal behaviour and consciousness is more naturalistic than Lawrence's ; and in harmony with this , Martha's lover ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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