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Page 63
... living ; with his capacity , in Kermodian terms , to invent a fiction . There are no norms or shared values in the Human Condition ; man is basically alone , living in a problematical relation with his fellow men , and at odds with ...
... living ; with his capacity , in Kermodian terms , to invent a fiction . There are no norms or shared values in the Human Condition ; man is basically alone , living in a problematical relation with his fellow men , and at odds with ...
Page 73
... living by buying and sell- ing whatever he can find : What also shocked his uncle and aunt was Lolly's indifference indeed , absolute ignorance - in matters of social class . Descriptive terms such as ' gentry ' , ' middle - class ...
... living by buying and sell- ing whatever he can find : What also shocked his uncle and aunt was Lolly's indifference indeed , absolute ignorance - in matters of social class . Descriptive terms such as ' gentry ' , ' middle - class ...
Page 157
... living ' and ' a sadly needed testimony to the endurance of the human spirit ' . ' And all this , Bernard reflected with amusement , proceeded from an irrational preoccupation with evil that was probably the result of nervous anxiety ...
... living ' and ' a sadly needed testimony to the endurance of the human spirit ' . ' And all this , Bernard reflected with amusement , proceeded from an irrational preoccupation with evil that was probably the result of nervous anxiety ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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