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... Lewis's prose is the perfect vehicle for the render- ing of his intellectual perceptions - and here one uses the word ' intellectual ' almost in a double sense , for Lewis was an intellectual whose work was based on a cluster of deeply ...
... Lewis's prose is the perfect vehicle for the render- ing of his intellectual perceptions - and here one uses the word ' intellectual ' almost in a double sense , for Lewis was an intellectual whose work was based on a cluster of deeply ...
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... Lewis ; but it is Kreisler who runs away with the book , as a ferociously comic rendering of the German mind in its inordinate romanticism . When the novel appeared it was compared widely to Dostoevsky , and Lewis was admittedly under ...
... Lewis ; but it is Kreisler who runs away with the book , as a ferociously comic rendering of the German mind in its inordinate romanticism . When the novel appeared it was compared widely to Dostoevsky , and Lewis was admittedly under ...
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... Lewis was born in the small town of Sauk Center , Minne- sota , in 1885 , only seven years after the stage coach ceased to be the town's single link with the outside world . The place and the date are significant . By the time Lewis ...
... Lewis was born in the small town of Sauk Center , Minne- sota , in 1885 , only seven years after the stage coach ceased to be the town's single link with the outside world . The place and the date are significant . By the time Lewis ...
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