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... Anti - Death League , which is Amis's blackest and most obsessed novel , with few pretensions to the comic . In this novel Jim Dixon's cheerful conviction that ' nice things are nicer than nasty ones ' is replaced by a death's head and ...
... Anti - Death League , which is Amis's blackest and most obsessed novel , with few pretensions to the comic . In this novel Jim Dixon's cheerful conviction that ' nice things are nicer than nasty ones ' is replaced by a death's head and ...
Page 173
... anti- religious poem sent to the camp magazine , and a subversive circular inviting the formation of an ' anti - death league ' , show that Churchill is not alone in his sentiments . Churchill's attacks on God are not new for they occur ...
... anti- religious poem sent to the camp magazine , and a subversive circular inviting the formation of an ' anti - death league ' , show that Churchill is not alone in his sentiments . Churchill's attacks on God are not new for they occur ...
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... death have caught up with him , and shown the insufficiency of this carefree view of the world . So he , too , is in revolt against death and God . The Anti - Death League is enough of a moral fable for one to feel that Amis is close to ...
... death have caught up with him , and shown the insufficiency of this carefree view of the world . So he , too , is in revolt against death and God . The Anti - Death League is enough of a moral fable for one to feel that Amis is close to ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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