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Page 52
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
Page 106
... past ; the novel is a dis- covery of the past , a coming to terms with it . It is in essence a young intellectual's imaginative reconstruction of the lives of his grand- parents and their families and relations , pioneers in the opening ...
... past ; the novel is a dis- covery of the past , a coming to terms with it . It is in essence a young intellectual's imaginative reconstruction of the lives of his grand- parents and their families and relations , pioneers in the opening ...
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... past with which I had no contact at all ' . And then , sometimes , in association with Kingisbyres I would suddenly have , almost overwhelmingly , the sense of the past , not so much a particular episode or period of history , as of ...
... past with which I had no contact at all ' . And then , sometimes , in association with Kingisbyres I would suddenly have , almost overwhelmingly , the sense of the past , not so much a particular episode or period of history , as of ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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