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Page 119
... later volumes of The Music of Time this world has been reinforced by businessmen and - during the war years - by soldiers , but it has never lost its basic flavour . Apart from its intrinsic merits , Afternoon Men shows the essence of ...
... later volumes of The Music of Time this world has been reinforced by businessmen and - during the war years - by soldiers , but it has never lost its basic flavour . Apart from its intrinsic merits , Afternoon Men shows the essence of ...
Page 120
... later volumes ) , others of them very prolonged and circumstantial , like Nicholas Jenkins's childhood memory of the dramatic episode one Sunday in the summer of 1914 , concerning his father's cook , Albert , and a female servant called ...
... later volumes ) , others of them very prolonged and circumstantial , like Nicholas Jenkins's childhood memory of the dramatic episode one Sunday in the summer of 1914 , concerning his father's cook , Albert , and a female servant called ...
Page 181
... later novels . It is , undoubtedly , one of his funniest books , with a variety of crackling incidents , much verbal brilliance , and some nicely rendered characters , like the put - upon and infinitely resilient Ceylonese sociologist ...
... later novels . It is , undoubtedly , one of his funniest books , with a variety of crackling incidents , much verbal brilliance , and some nicely rendered characters , like the put - upon and infinitely resilient Ceylonese sociologist ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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