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Page 134
... Eliot , move , with immense deftness , onwards and upwards through one area of society after another . We start with Eliot as a young man in a provincial town in the twenties , then follow him to the Inns of Court in London , to the ...
... Eliot , move , with immense deftness , onwards and upwards through one area of society after another . We start with Eliot as a young man in a provincial town in the twenties , then follow him to the Inns of Court in London , to the ...
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... Eliot ; in Forster's novel the Wilcoxes ' did not make the mistake of handling human affairs in the bulk , but ... Eliot's understand- ing . Much of the book is taken up , it is true , with familiar and mechanically efficient committee ...
... Eliot ; in Forster's novel the Wilcoxes ' did not make the mistake of handling human affairs in the bulk , but ... Eliot's understand- ing . Much of the book is taken up , it is true , with familiar and mechanically efficient committee ...
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... Eliot he makes an interesting effort to cope with them : Meg Eliot , the archetypal liberal heroine , whose forebears can be found in Forster and George Eliot and Jane Austen , is good - looking , sensitive , intelligent without being ...
... Eliot he makes an interesting effort to cope with them : Meg Eliot , the archetypal liberal heroine , whose forebears can be found in Forster and George Eliot and Jane Austen , is good - looking , sensitive , intelligent without being ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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