Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... political satire , or rather , a satire on political naivety . Its theme is the difference between political reality , which for Lewis means the pursuit of power , and political illusions . The action takes place in Spain and in London ...
... political satire , or rather , a satire on political naivety . Its theme is the difference between political reality , which for Lewis means the pursuit of power , and political illusions . The action takes place in Spain and in London ...
Page 129
... politics , the struggle for and control of power in a state , as it might have existed in any Italian principality ... political enemies with their own dirty weapons . Corruption , in the circum- stances of his time and place , is the ...
... politics , the struggle for and control of power in a state , as it might have existed in any Italian principality ... political enemies with their own dirty weapons . Corruption , in the circum- stances of his time and place , is the ...
Page 276
... political activities at the time . In these books Doris Lessing does for a young woman something very similar to what Bennett in Clayhanger and Lawrence in Sons and Lovers did for a young man , but the closer parallel is probably with ...
... political activities at the time . In these books Doris Lessing does for a young woman something very similar to what Bennett in Clayhanger and Lawrence in Sons and Lovers did for a young man , but the closer parallel is probably with ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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