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... modern techno- logy . Morris begins his narrative by describing how the Queen employed the newly invented telegraph to send a wire to every corner of her empire before she rode in her carriage to a memorial service in St Paul's ...
... modern techno- logy . Morris begins his narrative by describing how the Queen employed the newly invented telegraph to send a wire to every corner of her empire before she rode in her carriage to a memorial service in St Paul's ...
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... modern life disastrously lacks , and Brenda is finally denounced to us as a modern Guinevere , who has betrayed a whole way of life by her ( typically modern ) sexual infidelity . While in Brideshead Revisited , the representative of modern ...
... modern life disastrously lacks , and Brenda is finally denounced to us as a modern Guinevere , who has betrayed a whole way of life by her ( typically modern ) sexual infidelity . While in Brideshead Revisited , the representative of modern ...
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... modern art . His rebellion in aesthetics as in other things is purely playful . Anthony is associated with Cocteau , Diaghilev , Picasso , with modern art at its boldest . Charles prefers the art of painting British country houses . He ...
... modern art . His rebellion in aesthetics as in other things is purely playful . Anthony is associated with Cocteau , Diaghilev , Picasso , with modern art at its boldest . Charles prefers the art of painting British country houses . He ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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