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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 ...
Page 131
... Widmerpool ( one sees Powell's characteris- tic use of art - historical images ) : - He was tall and dark , and ... Widmerpool . But by degrees their relative positions change , as Stringham is undermined by his own weaknesses , becoming ...
... Widmerpool ( one sees Powell's characteris- tic use of art - historical images ) : - He was tall and dark , and ... Widmerpool . But by degrees their relative positions change , as Stringham is undermined by his own weaknesses , becoming ...
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... Widmerpool take the drunken Stringham home , and Widmerpool succeeds in getting him into bed by sheer physical force . Thereafter Stringham's fortunes decline sharply : in The Soldier's Art he serves as a humble but apparently contented ...
... Widmerpool take the drunken Stringham home , and Widmerpool succeeds in getting him into bed by sheer physical force . Thereafter Stringham's fortunes decline sharply : in The Soldier's Art he serves as a humble but apparently contented ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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