Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time |
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Page 52
... present I am held in a vice by the future . But if I strive to live in the future I am held in a vice by the images of the past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present ...
... present I am held in a vice by the future . But if I strive to live in the future I am held in a vice by the images of the past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present ...
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... present . The love reached its finest expression in her novel Death Comes for the Archbishop , published in 1927 , a novel of considerable beauty which describes the missionary enterprises of two Roman Catholic priests , Jean Marie ...
... present . The love reached its finest expression in her novel Death Comes for the Archbishop , published in 1927 , a novel of considerable beauty which describes the missionary enterprises of two Roman Catholic priests , Jean Marie ...
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... present . At first sight , he seems an obvious butt for the satirist . The narrator of the novel , a woman who knew him well , describes him as follows : As a speculator , he had been in a fur coat to Riga . In search of love , pleasure ...
... present . At first sight , he seems an obvious butt for the satirist . The narrator of the novel , a woman who knew him well , describes him as follows : As a speculator , he had been in a fur coat to Riga . In search of love , pleasure ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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