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Page 58
... centre of it all is Emily , the child on the verge of girlhood , a child - and therefore , according to Hughes , mad - when captured by the pirates but by the time of her rescue troubled by the premonitions of womanhood . She is ...
... centre of it all is Emily , the child on the verge of girlhood , a child - and therefore , according to Hughes , mad - when captured by the pirates but by the time of her rescue troubled by the premonitions of womanhood . She is ...
Page 225
... centre of Mr Beluncle , as it were ; he accepts him completely ; and there are no reservations in his sympathy , moral or aesthetic . He reveals Beluncle as a man who can scarcely be judged by ordinary standards of behaviour because he ...
... centre of Mr Beluncle , as it were ; he accepts him completely ; and there are no reservations in his sympathy , moral or aesthetic . He reveals Beluncle as a man who can scarcely be judged by ordinary standards of behaviour because he ...
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... centre of the trilogy , but not quite at the centre of events . She becomes more passive as the work proceeds , and in terms of it as a whole she is often only one of the centres of its consciousness . In Grey Granite Ewan increasingly ...
... centre of the trilogy , but not quite at the centre of events . She becomes more passive as the work proceeds , and in terms of it as a whole she is often only one of the centres of its consciousness . In Grey Granite Ewan increasingly ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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