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... attempt to examine this situation leads towards other questions , which are conventionally regarded as extra - literary . Thus , although there is an extended critical discussion in this book of some English novel- ists who have been ...
... attempt to examine this situation leads towards other questions , which are conventionally regarded as extra - literary . Thus , although there is an extended critical discussion in this book of some English novel- ists who have been ...
Page 97
... attempts of a middle - aged Englishman , Hubert Stencil , to find a mysterious creature called V. , who had once ... attempt at an uprising by Venezuelan exiles in Florence in 1899 , or the grisly account of German atrocities in ...
... attempts of a middle - aged Englishman , Hubert Stencil , to find a mysterious creature called V. , who had once ... attempt at an uprising by Venezuelan exiles in Florence in 1899 , or the grisly account of German atrocities in ...
Page 207
... attempts to invent fictional characters , concen- trating on his own experience . ( One might remark in passing that ... attempt to find some pattern in them . Trawl is an immensely serious book , which Johnson describes as being ' one ...
... attempts to invent fictional characters , concen- trating on his own experience . ( One might remark in passing that ... attempt to find some pattern in them . Trawl is an immensely serious book , which Johnson describes as being ' one ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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