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Page 54
... kind ; one notes , initially , its totalitarian implications ; it could readily fit into a fascist world - view as well as a Marxist one . One also needs to ask what the depersonalised ' human actions ' are which Mr Anderson refers to ...
... kind ; one notes , initially , its totalitarian implications ; it could readily fit into a fascist world - view as well as a Marxist one . One also needs to ask what the depersonalised ' human actions ' are which Mr Anderson refers to ...
Page 70
... kind that exists , though it is not par- ticularly common , in the United States , where many writers have some kind of academic connection , but is almost unknown in Eng- land . Talking to practising novelists I have been depressed to ...
... kind that exists , though it is not par- ticularly common , in the United States , where many writers have some kind of academic connection , but is almost unknown in Eng- land . Talking to practising novelists I have been depressed to ...
Page 126
... kind of death , which Tolstoy is pitiless in revealing , occurs in a society whose members are unable to examine their pretensions to be what they are . It is the society of The Death of Ivan Ilyich . Another kind of narrative evasion ...
... kind of death , which Tolstoy is pitiless in revealing , occurs in a society whose members are unable to examine their pretensions to be what they are . It is the society of The Death of Ivan Ilyich . Another kind of narrative evasion ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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