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... Swim - Two - Birds , has described it as ' the only real masterpiece in English that is far too little read and discussed ' ( Encounter , July 1967 ) . At Swim - Two - Birds both contains a novel within a novel , and embodies the idea ...
... Swim - Two - Birds , has described it as ' the only real masterpiece in English that is far too little read and discussed ' ( Encounter , July 1967 ) . At Swim - Two - Birds both contains a novel within a novel , and embodies the idea ...
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... Swim - Two - Birds : one of Trellis's charac- ters , Mr John Furriskey , comes into the world , ex nihilo , at the age of twenty - five , and describes the experience in terms that recall Adam's memory of his own creation . In fact , at ...
... Swim - Two - Birds : one of Trellis's charac- ters , Mr John Furriskey , comes into the world , ex nihilo , at the age of twenty - five , and describes the experience in terms that recall Adam's memory of his own creation . In fact , at ...
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... Swim - Two - Birds , 188 , 199-200 O'Connor , Frank , The Lonely Voice , 214 Olson , Charles , 66 Ortega y Gasset , José , 14 , 18 , 33 , 35 , 40 , 54 , 115 ; The Dehumanization of Art and Notes on the Novel , 14 , 35 Orwell , George ...
... Swim - Two - Birds , 188 , 199-200 O'Connor , Frank , The Lonely Voice , 214 Olson , Charles , 66 Ortega y Gasset , José , 14 , 18 , 33 , 35 , 40 , 54 , 115 ; The Dehumanization of Art and Notes on the Novel , 14 , 35 Orwell , George ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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