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Page 37
And to have a character was important too ; and the more it became a weapon for
hand - to - hand fighting , the hope of achieving success , the exercise of one's
ascendency , the more important it was . It was something , to have a face , in a ...
And to have a character was important too ; and the more it became a weapon for
hand - to - hand fighting , the hope of achieving success , the exercise of one's
ascendency , the more important it was . It was something , to have a face , in a ...
Page 42
If Rastignac's farewell characterises the French novel , then a comparable
epiphany from English fiction would be that tender moment in Middlemarch when
Mrs Bulstrode takes her husband's hand in a gesture of affection and support ,
after ...
If Rastignac's farewell characterises the French novel , then a comparable
epiphany from English fiction would be that tender moment in Middlemarch when
Mrs Bulstrode takes her husband's hand in a gesture of affection and support ,
after ...
Page 214
... Sallie Bingham's The Touching Hand ; and Paul Bowles's The Time of
Friendship . These contain uniformly accomplished renderings of the defeat of
human aspiration by brutish circumstance , whether the victims are Moroccan
peasants ...
... Sallie Bingham's The Touching Hand ; and Paul Bowles's The Time of
Friendship . These contain uniformly accomplished renderings of the defeat of
human aspiration by brutish circumstance , whether the victims are Moroccan
peasants ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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