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Page 52
... theme of the novel being written ; ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a mystical experience ; he wakes up to find himself detached from his body , free of the bounds of ...
... theme of the novel being written ; ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a mystical experience ; he wakes up to find himself detached from his body , free of the bounds of ...
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... theme at least , Lady Haslam's tyranny over her family through hypochondria , is already evident . What remains remarkable , of course , is that she is able to handle her themes at their greatest and darkest moment of revelation , when ...
... theme at least , Lady Haslam's tyranny over her family through hypochondria , is already evident . What remains remarkable , of course , is that she is able to handle her themes at their greatest and darkest moment of revelation , when ...
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... theme to that of the much more complex ; and in retrospect his novels seem to fall into four main groups ; the African novels , Aissa Saved ( 1932 ) , An American Visitor ( 1933 ) , The African Witch ( 1936 ) and Mister Johnson ( 1939 ) ...
... theme to that of the much more complex ; and in retrospect his novels seem to fall into four main groups ; the African novels , Aissa Saved ( 1932 ) , An American Visitor ( 1933 ) , The African Witch ( 1936 ) and Mister Johnson ( 1939 ) ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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