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The novel seems unsure of its step because it has lost what used to be its greatest support – the hero . If it doesn't manage to get back on to a proper footing it will mean that its life is intimately linked to that of a bygone society ...
The novel seems unsure of its step because it has lost what used to be its greatest support – the hero . If it doesn't manage to get back on to a proper footing it will mean that its life is intimately linked to that of a bygone society ...
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... which can make Fielding , with whom Robert Scholes rashly compares him , seem infinitely sensitive and subtle . ... if little real imagination ; reading it is rather like being imprisoned – for ever as it seems - in a vast comic ...
... which can make Fielding , with whom Robert Scholes rashly compares him , seem infinitely sensitive and subtle . ... if little real imagination ; reading it is rather like being imprisoned – for ever as it seems - in a vast comic ...
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I'm afraid I may have been unfair to Meyer Liben , who is a highly original and interesting writer , and who seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than Herlihy or Bowles , and certainly than Miss Bingham , who is very competent ...
I'm afraid I may have been unfair to Meyer Liben , who is a highly original and interesting writer , and who seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than Herlihy or Bowles , and certainly than Miss Bingham , who is very competent ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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