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In That Uncertain Feeling John Lewis, swallowing a mouthful of tea-leaves after
entertaining adulterous thoughts, reflects, 'Life, that resourceful technician, had
administered a typical rebuke.' Dixon obtains a book he wants from a library with
...
In That Uncertain Feeling John Lewis, swallowing a mouthful of tea-leaves after
entertaining adulterous thoughts, reflects, 'Life, that resourceful technician, had
administered a typical rebuke.' Dixon obtains a book he wants from a library with
...
Page 176
Both are satirical, anti-utopian treatments of an imaginary totalitarian England;
both seem to reflect the influence of Orwell (and of Orwell's own models, Wells's
When the Sleeper Wakes and Huxley's Brave New World), and indicate an ...
Both are satirical, anti-utopian treatments of an imaginary totalitarian England;
both seem to reflect the influence of Orwell (and of Orwell's own models, Wells's
When the Sleeper Wakes and Huxley's Brave New World), and indicate an ...
Page 203
She is about to turn an incident she has witnessed into a short story when she
reflects: 'It struck me that my doing this — turning everything into fiction – must be
an evasion. Why not write down, simply, what happened between Molly and her ...
She is about to turn an incident she has witnessed into a short story when she
reflects: 'It struck me that my doing this — turning everything into fiction – must be
an evasion. Why not write down, simply, what happened between Molly and her ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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