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Page 111
It is , on the whole , questionable whether the novel has gained very much from
the revision . But Waugh's preface does revealingly suggest that we are to read
Brideshead Revisited ' as a souvenir of the Second War rather than of the
twenties ...
It is , on the whole , questionable whether the novel has gained very much from
the revision . But Waugh's preface does revealingly suggest that we are to read
Brideshead Revisited ' as a souvenir of the Second War rather than of the
twenties ...
Page 138
... in Strangers and Brothers ; yet Snow's statement does show that he regards
the whole sequence as a carefully planned whole : that it fails , in practice , to
convey anything like such an impression is partly due to Snow's excessive
reliance on ...
... in Strangers and Brothers ; yet Snow's statement does show that he regards
the whole sequence as a carefully planned whole : that it fails , in practice , to
convey anything like such an impression is partly due to Snow's excessive
reliance on ...
Page 160
Increasingly in No Laughing Matter one feels that Wilson has not been able to
muster sufficient imaginative energy to animate the whole of his ample design ,
and there is a palpable weariness in the last part of the book , as compared with
its ...
Increasingly in No Laughing Matter one feels that Wilson has not been able to
muster sufficient imaginative energy to animate the whole of his ample design ,
and there is a palpable weariness in the last part of the book , as compared with
its ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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