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... fiction has been the exploration of what it means to be an American , expressed often in solitary heroes with a whole world to roam over , the great overriding preoccupation of English fiction throughout its history has been class ...
... fiction has been the exploration of what it means to be an American , expressed often in solitary heroes with a whole world to roam over , the great overriding preoccupation of English fiction throughout its history has been class ...
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... fiction his best work has lain in the short story , and there his achievement , especially in volumes like I Speak of Africa and A Child of Queen Victoria , has been remarkable . All the same , his novels cannot be ignored and , taken ...
... fiction his best work has lain in the short story , and there his achievement , especially in volumes like I Speak of Africa and A Child of Queen Victoria , has been remarkable . All the same , his novels cannot be ignored and , taken ...
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... fiction has done . George Orwell's influence on the younger English writers of the past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has ...
... fiction has done . George Orwell's influence on the younger English writers of the past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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