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Page 37
It may not be progress , but it is certain that the present age is rather that of the
regimental number . The destiny of the world no longer seems to us to be
identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families . The world itself is no
longer ...
It may not be progress , but it is certain that the present age is rather that of the
regimental number . The destiny of the world no longer seems to us to be
identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families . The world itself is no
longer ...
Page 94
... in the writing which can make Fielding , with whom Robert Scholes rashly
compares him , seem infinitely sensitive and ... reading it is rather like being
imprisoned – for ever as it seems – in a vast comic strip , full of the denizens of
the huge ...
... in the writing which can make Fielding , with whom Robert Scholes rashly
compares him , seem infinitely sensitive and ... reading it is rather like being
imprisoned – for ever as it seems – in a vast comic strip , full of the denizens of
the huge ...
Page 218
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 , but
...
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 , but
...
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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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