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... tion is possible ; and it comes about through the figure of Mrs Moore , the old lady on whom India has so strange an effect and who becomes , after she leaves India to die on the voyage home , almost a local goddess . She is not ...
... tion is possible ; and it comes about through the figure of Mrs Moore , the old lady on whom India has so strange an effect and who becomes , after she leaves India to die on the voyage home , almost a local goddess . She is not ...
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... tion , wrought with unparalleled suddenness and vindictiveness , of a civilization different from and superior to that of the North , a civiliza- tion consciously aristocratic that opposed to the bourgeois commercial values of the North ...
... tion , wrought with unparalleled suddenness and vindictiveness , of a civilization different from and superior to that of the North , a civiliza- tion consciously aristocratic that opposed to the bourgeois commercial values of the North ...
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... tion , from which she escapes only to return to Algiers little better than an imbecile . In these novels Bowles expresses the ultimate horror of nothingness . Yet , though the books affect one while reading almost as a series of ...
... tion , from which she escapes only to return to Algiers little better than an imbecile . In these novels Bowles expresses the ultimate horror of nothingness . Yet , though the books affect one while reading almost as a series of ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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