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... less frequent . Thus , even the most overtly realistic novel is to some extent about its own inherited conventions , a notion updated and simplified by Marshall McLuhan as ' the medium is the message ' . John Bayley , who clings to an ...
... less frequent . Thus , even the most overtly realistic novel is to some extent about its own inherited conventions , a notion updated and simplified by Marshall McLuhan as ' the medium is the message ' . John Bayley , who clings to an ...
Page 131
... less usual , will - power , not so much natural , as developed to altogether exceptional lengths . No doubt there had been a generous basic endowment , but of not the essentially magnetic quality . In short , the will here might even be ...
... less usual , will - power , not so much natural , as developed to altogether exceptional lengths . No doubt there had been a generous basic endowment , but of not the essentially magnetic quality . In short , the will here might even be ...
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... less easy to sustain . The Golden Notebook follows Doris Lessing's earlier novels in the Martha Quest sequence ; if those books showed the struggles of a young woman for independence , then The Golden Notebook shows the harder though less ...
... less easy to sustain . The Golden Notebook follows Doris Lessing's earlier novels in the Martha Quest sequence ; if those books showed the struggles of a young woman for independence , then The Golden Notebook shows the harder though less ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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