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... young man leaving university and going into advertising , having qualms about it , more or less overcoming them , having an affair with one girl - a secretary , perhaps , or his boss's wife but finally marrying another ? Or about a ...
... young man leaving university and going into advertising , having qualms about it , more or less overcoming them , having an affair with one girl - a secretary , perhaps , or his boss's wife but finally marrying another ? Or about a ...
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... young American writers think that novels must be written , with a full con- centration of resources , young English writers seem merely to exude them . In this situation I am firmly on the side of the Americans . The school of creative ...
... young American writers think that novels must be written , with a full con- centration of resources , young English writers seem merely to exude them . In this situation I am firmly on the side of the Americans . The school of creative ...
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... young man's picaresque adventures , in this case set in a shady country club in North Wales . There is a lack of conviction about the more conventionally narrative section , and it is evident that much of Johnson's energy went into the ...
... young man's picaresque adventures , in this case set in a shady country club in North Wales . There is a lack of conviction about the more conventionally narrative section , and it is evident that much of Johnson's energy went into the ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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