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Page 69
... least show signs of trying hard , of energy and invention . Here for instance is the opening of one such , the late Richard Farina's Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me : To Athené then . Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis , furry Pooh ...
... least show signs of trying hard , of energy and invention . Here for instance is the opening of one such , the late Richard Farina's Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me : To Athené then . Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis , furry Pooh ...
Page 162
... least the same degree as Snow or William Cooper ; indeed his tastes are narrower , since he does not share Snow's admiration for Proust . Yet his way of writing fiction suggests that he has undergone , no matter how unwillingly , the ...
... least the same degree as Snow or William Cooper ; indeed his tastes are narrower , since he does not share Snow's admiration for Proust . Yet his way of writing fiction suggests that he has undergone , no matter how unwillingly , the ...
Page 183
... least his way of describing them is whereas Amis and Wilson keep comedy and horror on separate planes in their fiction , Burgess , like Waugh , often fuses them . In some respects Alex is not at all a stereotype delinquent . He and his ...
... least his way of describing them is whereas Amis and Wilson keep comedy and horror on separate planes in their fiction , Burgess , like Waugh , often fuses them . In some respects Alex is not at all a stereotype delinquent . He and his ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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