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... Widmerpool and Charles Stringham as ' a major contrast of twentieth century natures ' . Widmerpool is , of course , known to anyone who has read any part of The Music of Time ; he is , as it were , a living proof that it is still ...
... Widmerpool and Charles Stringham as ' a major contrast of twentieth century natures ' . Widmerpool is , of course , known to anyone who has read any part of The Music of Time ; he is , as it were , a living proof that it is still ...
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... Widmer- pool's comment on this news is a singularly cold - blooded piece of Realpolitik . Guy Crouchback made similar discoveries about the world , and responded in the way that we have seen . Jenkins , the cool observer of a comic ...
... Widmer- pool's comment on this news is a singularly cold - blooded piece of Realpolitik . Guy Crouchback made similar discoveries about the world , and responded in the way that we have seen . Jenkins , the cool observer of a comic ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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