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... similar vein , and then proceeded to interpret their own supposedly unique experience in accordance with those formulas . I am referring , I should add , to novels which make some claim to literary seriousness , and which get reviewed ...
... similar vein , and then proceeded to interpret their own supposedly unique experience in accordance with those formulas . I am referring , I should add , to novels which make some claim to literary seriousness , and which get reviewed ...
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... similar crisis in the concept of man . Modern man can be seen as a mere numerical entity within the most terrifying collectives that the human race has ever known . He can be seen as existing not for himself alone but as part of ...
... similar crisis in the concept of man . Modern man can be seen as a mere numerical entity within the most terrifying collectives that the human race has ever known . He can be seen as existing not for himself alone but as part of ...
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... similar types . Snow's inferiority as a literary artist is strikingly revealed in such a comparison . Strangers and Brothers - the novel which gives its name to the whole sequence - is another work where the action is focused on a ...
... similar types . Snow's inferiority as a literary artist is strikingly revealed in such a comparison . Strangers and Brothers - the novel which gives its name to the whole sequence - is another work where the action is focused on a ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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