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Page 114
... Crouchback trilogy is that though the work of an author of extremely conservative opinions it is one of the most deeply satirical accounts of military life on record . Guy Crouch- back's military career is totally inglorious , if for no ...
... Crouchback trilogy is that though the work of an author of extremely conservative opinions it is one of the most deeply satirical accounts of military life on record . Guy Crouch- back's military career is totally inglorious , if for no ...
Page 115
... Crouchback has similar visions . But , unlike Ryder , he changes and learns . In the person of Guy Crouchback , Waugh offers us his fullest and most sympathetic delineation of the ideal of the Gentleman , the embodiment of the Gothic ...
... Crouchback has similar visions . But , unlike Ryder , he changes and learns . In the person of Guy Crouchback , Waugh offers us his fullest and most sympathetic delineation of the ideal of the Gentleman , the embodiment of the Gothic ...
Page 117
... Crouchback is in fact the son of Trimmer , who was in all respects the antithesis of the gentlemanly ideal . This is , on the face of it , one of Waugh's most savagely sardonic ironies of situation . Yet , as old Mr Crouchback would ...
... Crouchback is in fact the son of Trimmer , who was in all respects the antithesis of the gentlemanly ideal . This is , on the face of it , one of Waugh's most savagely sardonic ironies of situation . Yet , as old Mr Crouchback would ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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