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Bernard Bergonzi. Short Story THE short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and neglected : one or two specimens , at least , are to be found in any self - respecting intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly , yet no ...
Bernard Bergonzi. Short Story THE short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and neglected : one or two specimens , at least , are to be found in any self - respecting intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly , yet no ...
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... short - story writer is bound to see the world in a certain way , not merely because of our customary atmosphere of crisis , but because the form of the short story tends to filter down ex- perience to the prime elements of defeat and ...
... short - story writer is bound to see the world in a certain way , not merely because of our customary atmosphere of crisis , but because the form of the short story tends to filter down ex- perience to the prime elements of defeat and ...
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... short - story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material . At least I enjoyed considerably the title story of Justice Hunger , which is in fact a short novel of 140 pages . It tells the story of a love affair that doesn't ...
... short - story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material . At least I enjoyed considerably the title story of Justice Hunger , which is in fact a short novel of 140 pages . It tells the story of a love affair that doesn't ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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