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Page 41
... expression . Its nature makes Firbank , at first sight , a marginal figure in the history of recent fiction ; yet , when we look closer and look at him in the context of his time , of the nineties in which he grew up and the decade from ...
... expression . Its nature makes Firbank , at first sight , a marginal figure in the history of recent fiction ; yet , when we look closer and look at him in the context of his time , of the nineties in which he grew up and the decade from ...
Page 96
... expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on proclama- tions that were slapped up by billposters over other ...
... expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on proclama- tions that were slapped up by billposters over other ...
Page 257
... expression in A Treatise on the Novel I find it too prissy and governessy to be quite admirable . When I meet it in the narrator of The Last Enchantments , however , it is another matter . On the surface , the novel is composed largely ...
... expression in A Treatise on the Novel I find it too prissy and governessy to be quite admirable . When I meet it in the narrator of The Last Enchantments , however , it is another matter . On the surface , the novel is composed largely ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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