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This is , in fact , a thoroughly bad piece of writing , a generic version the inflated prose one has read in many ... Whereas young American writers think that novels must be written , with a full concentration of resources , young ...
This is , in fact , a thoroughly bad piece of writing , a generic version the inflated prose one has read in many ... Whereas young American writers think that novels must be written , with a full concentration of resources , young ...
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The ostensible writer becomes a sort of enveloping character , himself in discussion with the reader . ... William Clissold , thin and pretentious work though it is , can hardly be regarded as a piece of conventional novel - writing .
The ostensible writer becomes a sort of enveloping character , himself in discussion with the reader . ... William Clissold , thin and pretentious work though it is , can hardly be regarded as a piece of conventional novel - writing .
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... to reality about sitting here writing looking out across Claremont Square trying to say something about the writing and nothing being an answer to the loneliness to the lack of loving Although it would be possible to assimilate this ...
... to reality about sitting here writing looking out across Claremont Square trying to say something about the writing and nothing being an answer to the loneliness to the lack of loving Although it would be possible to assimilate this ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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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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