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Page 120
... Powell's other early novels it looks forward to The Music of Time . During the 1940s Powell published no more novels , but he wrote a life of John Aubrey and edited a selection from Aubrey's Brief Lives . The interest in Aubrey is ...
... Powell's other early novels it looks forward to The Music of Time . During the 1940s Powell published no more novels , but he wrote a life of John Aubrey and edited a selection from Aubrey's Brief Lives . The interest in Aubrey is ...
Page 124
... Powell is in the mainstream of English social comedy , where our perception of the world requires a perpetual mild , ironic readjustment . Jane Austen lies not excessively far be- hind The Music of Time . Another American critic , James ...
... Powell is in the mainstream of English social comedy , where our perception of the world requires a perpetual mild , ironic readjustment . Jane Austen lies not excessively far be- hind The Music of Time . Another American critic , James ...
Page 127
... Powell's novel is , after all , a comedy , and the very essence of the comic is detachment , which need not be an ... Powell mentioned in the same context as Waugh and Proust is helpful at this point in the discussion , since it is pre ...
... Powell's novel is , after all , a comedy , and the very essence of the comic is detachment , which need not be an ... Powell mentioned in the same context as Waugh and Proust is helpful at this point in the discussion , since it is pre ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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