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... Studs Lonigan Farrell prefixed a quotation from Plato which seems to sum up his point of view exactly : ' Except in the case of some rarely gifted nature there never will be a good man who has not from his childhood been used to play ...
... Studs Lonigan Farrell prefixed a quotation from Plato which seems to sum up his point of view exactly : ' Except in the case of some rarely gifted nature there never will be a good man who has not from his childhood been used to play ...
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... Studs hasn't his moments of higher aspiration . They are represented by his ... Lonigan , finally rejects him after he has picked up venereal disease from a ... Studs is shown simply as the product and the victim of a corrupt and vicious ...
... Studs hasn't his moments of higher aspiration . They are represented by his ... Lonigan , finally rejects him after he has picked up venereal disease from a ... Studs is shown simply as the product and the victim of a corrupt and vicious ...
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... Studs Lonigan , which remains Farrell's master work , though a much more recent one shows qualities of tenderness and sympathy of which one scarcely thought him capable . This is The Face of Time , published in 1954. In it — it is not ...
... Studs Lonigan , which remains Farrell's master work , though a much more recent one shows qualities of tenderness and sympathy of which one scarcely thought him capable . This is The Face of Time , published in 1954. In it — it is not ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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