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... perhaps into the revelation of their true qualities . Thus one officer , Rabb , ' an efficient and popular officer ... Perhaps not . Perhaps no one could have borne that foreknowledge . But passing instead from each known moment only to ...
... perhaps into the revelation of their true qualities . Thus one officer , Rabb , ' an efficient and popular officer ... Perhaps not . Perhaps no one could have borne that foreknowledge . But passing instead from each known moment only to ...
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... perhaps what he deserves but certainly what he must expect . He is betrayed as much by the nature of his illusions as by his wife . And this is made plain in the novel . He is pathetic but no more ; no more is claimed for him . He is ...
... perhaps what he deserves but certainly what he must expect . He is betrayed as much by the nature of his illusions as by his wife . And this is made plain in the novel . He is pathetic but no more ; no more is claimed for him . He is ...
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... perhaps difficult not to see a split between the first two volumes and the third . In the first two books Catholicism asserts itself as the core of a nostalgic dream of an ideal past by which the present is judged and found wanting ...
... perhaps difficult not to see a split between the first two volumes and the third . In the first two books Catholicism asserts itself as the core of a nostalgic dream of an ideal past by which the present is judged and found wanting ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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