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Page 136
... turns from the lover to love another who also turns away . It is told with a beautiful economy and precision in a prose of singular purity that transmits both the ambience of the town and its inhabitants and the timeless quality which ...
... turns from the lover to love another who also turns away . It is told with a beautiful economy and precision in a prose of singular purity that transmits both the ambience of the town and its inhabitants and the timeless quality which ...
Page 202
... turn is interesting only because we know that one day Ralph Ernest Gorse will hang . They are not explored in depth ... turns to the novels Greene wrote in the thirties one sees immediately that they could have been written at no other ...
... turn is interesting only because we know that one day Ralph Ernest Gorse will hang . They are not explored in depth ... turns to the novels Greene wrote in the thirties one sees immediately that they could have been written at no other ...
Page 325
... turn it down . ' Even so , it is much more explicit in The Adventures of Augie March ( 1953 ) , Bellow's first extravert novel and a long , sustained exercise in the picaresque told by Augie himself . It is set for the most part in the ...
... turn it down . ' Even so , it is much more explicit in The Adventures of Augie March ( 1953 ) , Bellow's first extravert novel and a long , sustained exercise in the picaresque told by Augie himself . It is set for the most part in the ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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