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Page 111
... whole Marchmain saga is related through the memories , certainly drenched with nostalgia and quite possibly disordered , of Charles Ryder . And Ryder is , un- fortunately , one of Waugh's least interesting characters : weak ...
... whole Marchmain saga is related through the memories , certainly drenched with nostalgia and quite possibly disordered , of Charles Ryder . And Ryder is , un- fortunately , one of Waugh's least interesting characters : weak ...
Page 138
... 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 the convention of the first - person narrator . One does not need to ...
... 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 the convention of the first - person narrator . One does not need to ...
Page 160
... whole , comes off . The novel contains many brilliant episodes , yet the successes remain local and remind one that Wilson began his literary career as a short story writer , and has always had difficulty in responding adequately to the ...
... whole , comes off . The novel contains many brilliant episodes , yet the successes remain local and remind one that Wilson began his literary career as a short story writer , and has always had difficulty in responding adequately to the ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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