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Page 25
... social fabric of life is realized , is the sheet - anchor of the novel . But Lawrence's first interest is not in writing anything so simple as the conventional social novel . What he was after has been excellently put by Eliseo Vivas ...
... social fabric of life is realized , is the sheet - anchor of the novel . But Lawrence's first interest is not in writing anything so simple as the conventional social novel . What he was after has been excellently put by Eliseo Vivas ...
Page 139
... social questions of the time . Yet even so , it is not quite so simple as it seems . We don't in these days think of Graham Greene as a social novelist , but his novels of the thirties had an immediate topical reference ; they could ...
... social questions of the time . Yet even so , it is not quite so simple as it seems . We don't in these days think of Graham Greene as a social novelist , but his novels of the thirties had an immediate topical reference ; they could ...
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... social change mirrored within the confines of a single small family . When Hurry on down appeared it seemed as though John Wain might be the satirist of this period of social change , but though he has written several novels since , he ...
... social change mirrored within the confines of a single small family . When Hurry on down appeared it seemed as though John Wain might be the satirist of this period of social change , but though he has written several novels since , he ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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