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Page 22
... opening page of Radcliffe , which describes the hero's first day as a boy at school , was modelled on the opening of Madame Bovary . Margaret Drabble said of her first novel , A Summer Birdcage : ' A lot of the plot was based on ...
... opening page of Radcliffe , which describes the hero's first day as a boy at school , was modelled on the opening of Madame Bovary . Margaret Drabble said of her first novel , A Summer Birdcage : ' A lot of the plot was based on ...
Page 91
... opening proposition of the Tractatus ; there is a joke in Mondaugen saying that he has heard it somewhere before , since the Tractatus was first published in 1921 , and this epi- sode takes place in the following year . The phrase ...
... opening proposition of the Tractatus ; there is a joke in Mondaugen saying that he has heard it somewhere before , since the Tractatus was first published in 1921 , and this epi- sode takes place in the following year . The phrase ...
Page 119
... opening pages of Afternoon Men , where the syntax conveys the sense of experience fragmented into countless disparate units , with only the most tenuous connection between them ( the scene is an afternoon drink- ing club ) : Atwater did ...
... opening pages of Afternoon Men , where the syntax conveys the sense of experience fragmented into countless disparate units , with only the most tenuous connection between them ( the scene is an afternoon drink- ing club ) : Atwater did ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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