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Page 161
... Amis's fiction in roughly the order in which I have set them down here , assume a different pattern of frequency in ... Amis's work has become steadily less dominant since Jim Dixon made his carefree debut . Amis admirably refused to ...
... Amis's fiction in roughly the order in which I have set them down here , assume a different pattern of frequency in ... Amis's work has become steadily less dominant since Jim Dixon made his carefree debut . Amis admirably refused to ...
Page 163
... Amis's novels , there are casual references that would seem savage if it were not for the tone and the stylistic controls which preserve it : Jim dreams of stuffing Professor Welch down the lavatory , or of beating him about the head ...
... Amis's novels , there are casual references that would seem savage if it were not for the tone and the stylistic controls which preserve it : Jim dreams of stuffing Professor Welch down the lavatory , or of beating him about the head ...
Page 174
... Amis's immersion in the nightmare that flickers at the edges of his earlier fiction . It is a brave book , for in ... Amis's development . * * Amis's latest novel The Green Man is thematically a direct develop- ment from The Anti - Death ...
... Amis's immersion in the nightmare that flickers at the edges of his earlier fiction . It is a brave book , for in ... Amis's development . * * Amis's latest novel The Green Man is thematically a direct develop- ment from The Anti - Death ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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