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Page 90
... means anything , means just that — and he must be about His Father's business , the service of a vast , vulgar , and meretricious beauty . So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seven - ` teen - year - old boy would be likely ...
... means anything , means just that — and he must be about His Father's business , the service of a vast , vulgar , and meretricious beauty . So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seven - ` teen - year - old boy would be likely ...
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... means which he has used to reach it . Preten- tiousness is essentially a failure in self - criticism , in self - knowledge . It has been , it seems to me , Warren's besetting sin . It seriously mars All the King's Men ; it ruins World ...
... means which he has used to reach it . Preten- tiousness is essentially a failure in self - criticism , in self - knowledge . It has been , it seems to me , Warren's besetting sin . It seriously mars All the King's Men ; it ruins World ...
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... means test , the English novels of social protest of the time seem in retrospect altogether more tepid , more genteel affairs than their American counterparts . There were plenty of novels exposing the misery of unemployment , the most ...
... means test , the English novels of social protest of the time seem in retrospect altogether more tepid , more genteel affairs than their American counterparts . There were plenty of novels exposing the misery of unemployment , the most ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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