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Page 109
... Waugh would one day attempt a novel of high seriousness . Nevertheless , when such a novel finally appeared , in the form of Brideshead Revisited , many readers were disconcerted , and Waugh has remarked that it ' lost me such esteem as ...
... Waugh would one day attempt a novel of high seriousness . Nevertheless , when such a novel finally appeared , in the form of Brideshead Revisited , many readers were disconcerted , and Waugh has remarked that it ' lost me such esteem as ...
Page 112
... Waugh was attempting an elaborate Proustian recreation of time past for which his talents were fundamentally ill - suited . The book's elaborate metaphorical structure is superimposed rather than integral , and the absence of Waugh's ...
... Waugh was attempting an elaborate Proustian recreation of time past for which his talents were fundamentally ill - suited . The book's elaborate metaphorical structure is superimposed rather than integral , and the absence of Waugh's ...
Page 211
... Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold , a short and characteristically elegant story , about a respectable man of letters on the edge of a nervous breakdown , who takes a sea voyage for his health and is subject to a macabre series of ...
... Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold , a short and characteristically elegant story , about a respectable man of letters on the edge of a nervous breakdown , who takes a sea voyage for his health and is subject to a macabre series of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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