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Page 69
... true- hearted , the wild - hearted Saturday - night gang of true friends , Buddy , Dave and Mike . Snowing . Snow - cold . The cold of cities in the daddy of cities , New York . But true to us . Buddy , the ape - shouldered stood apart ...
... true- hearted , the wild - hearted Saturday - night gang of true friends , Buddy , Dave and Mike . Snowing . Snow - cold . The cold of cities in the daddy of cities , New York . But true to us . Buddy , the ape - shouldered stood apart ...
Page 105
... true of John Beaver and Brenda Last , and largely true of Tony Last . There is , perhaps , slightly more S.N. - 4 * to him to engage our sympathies , but he remains LOOKING BACKWARD 105.
... true of John Beaver and Brenda Last , and largely true of Tony Last . There is , perhaps , slightly more S.N. - 4 * to him to engage our sympathies , but he remains LOOKING BACKWARD 105.
Page 151
... true literary seriousness , a fact which enables him to elude confident critical placing . Without doubt Wilson is a writer of unusually fine intelligence , wide reading and great sensitivity . Yet for him , as for many of his ...
... true literary seriousness , a fact which enables him to elude confident critical placing . Without doubt Wilson is a writer of unusually fine intelligence , wide reading and great sensitivity . Yet for him , as for many of his ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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