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Page 163
... Amis's novels , there are casual references that would seem savage if it were not for the tone and the stylistic controls which preserve it : Jim dreams of stuffing Professor Welch down the lavatory , or of beating him about the head ...
... Amis's novels , there are casual references that would seem savage if it were not for the tone and the stylistic controls which preserve it : Jim dreams of stuffing Professor Welch down the lavatory , or of beating him about the head ...
Page 168
... Amis's next novel , the short and sour One Fat Englishman , is as far on in unpleasantness from Patrick Standish as ... Amis's earlier nonconformist , declassé heroes would certainly have loathed him . And so , one assumes , does Amis at ...
... Amis's next novel , the short and sour One Fat Englishman , is as far on in unpleasantness from Patrick Standish as ... Amis's earlier nonconformist , declassé heroes would certainly have loathed him . And so , one assumes , does Amis at ...
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... Amis's immersion in the nightmare that flickers at the edges of his earlier fiction . It is a brave book , for in ... Amis's development . * * Amis's latest novel The Green Man is thematically a direct develop- ment from The Anti - Death ...
... Amis's immersion in the nightmare that flickers at the edges of his earlier fiction . It is a brave book , for in ... Amis's development . * * Amis's latest novel The Green Man is thematically a direct develop- ment from The Anti - Death ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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