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... themes and the multi- plicity of the treatments are unlike Amis's other novels , and could remind one - but for other differences of the most ambitious novelists of the twentieth century . The theme of death and its arbitrariness is ...
... themes and the multi- plicity of the treatments are unlike Amis's other novels , and could remind one - but for other differences of the most ambitious novelists of the twentieth century . The theme of death and its arbitrariness is ...
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... theme of protest against God , religion , theology , philosophy , or any explanation of life , is carried by James Churchill , a young officer , and by Willie Ayscue , the unit's chaplain : and by the unknown author of a deicide poem ...
... theme of protest against God , religion , theology , philosophy , or any explanation of life , is carried by James Churchill , a young officer , and by Willie Ayscue , the unit's chaplain : and by the unknown author of a deicide poem ...
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... theme , 211 ; parents of , 60–1 ; seriousness of , 76 ; thematic treatment of states of consciousness , 67–8 ; themes opposed to Kipling , 46 , 47 Lawrence , D.H .: works and characters : ' A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover ' , 211 ...
... theme , 211 ; parents of , 60–1 ; seriousness of , 76 ; thematic treatment of states of consciousness , 67–8 ; themes opposed to Kipling , 46 , 47 Lawrence , D.H .: works and characters : ' A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover ' , 211 ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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