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Page 56
... looking and dealt with questions that were trivial or unin- telligible to the outsider . American fiction , on the other hand , com- municated directly and forcefully : he instanced Saul Bellow's Herzog , which he greatly admired . I ...
... looking and dealt with questions that were trivial or unin- telligible to the outsider . American fiction , on the other hand , com- municated directly and forcefully : he instanced Saul Bellow's Herzog , which he greatly admired . I ...
Page 119
... looking young man with straw - coloured hair and rather long legs , who had failed twice for the Foreign Office . He sometimes wore tortoiseshell - rimmed spectacles to correct a slight squint , and through influence he had recently got ...
... looking young man with straw - coloured hair and rather long legs , who had failed twice for the Foreign Office . He sometimes wore tortoiseshell - rimmed spectacles to correct a slight squint , and through influence he had recently got ...
Page 145
... looking up at the lights of Sheila's house . As he grows older it is used to emphasise the glamour of life in London : ' On the way down St James's Street , the windows of the clubs glowing comfortably warm through the deepening fog ...
... looking up at the lights of Sheila's house . As he grows older it is used to emphasise the glamour of life in London : ' On the way down St James's Street , the windows of the clubs glowing comfortably warm through the deepening fog ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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