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One publisher , T. G. Rosenthal , has remarked , ' surely fiction publishing is the only form of cultural life where intelligent and serious - minded men and women make available to the public bad works of art , knowing them to be bad ...
One publisher , T. G. Rosenthal , has remarked , ' surely fiction publishing is the only form of cultural life where intelligent and serious - minded men and women make available to the public bad works of art , knowing them to be bad ...
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Nevertheless , when such a novel finally appeared , in the form of Brideshead Revisited , many readers were disconcerted , and Waugh has remarked that it ' lost me such esteem as I once enjoyed among my contemporaries ' .
Nevertheless , when such a novel finally appeared , in the form of Brideshead Revisited , many readers were disconcerted , and Waugh has remarked that it ' lost me such esteem as I once enjoyed among my contemporaries ' .
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( In a short primer called Language Made Plain Burgess remarked , with Nominalist primness , ' in every serious discussion much time has to be spent in redefining common terms like " Love ” , “ justice " , " freedom " ' . ) ...
( In a short primer called Language Made Plain Burgess remarked , with Nominalist primness , ' in every serious discussion much time has to be spent in redefining common terms like " Love ” , “ justice " , " freedom " ' . ) ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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