The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties"A study of six novelists of the nineteen-thirties : Edward Upward, Rex Warner, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell." -- Preface. |
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... kind to the weak , the poor , and the old , and regarding cruelty and falsehood as the greatest of evils .... No child of my generation of even minimal intelligence or sensibility could have remained untroubled by what went on in France ...
... kind to the weak , the poor , and the old , and regarding cruelty and falsehood as the greatest of evils .... No child of my generation of even minimal intelligence or sensibility could have remained untroubled by what went on in France ...
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... kind of spiritual superiority . This suggestion in Decline and Fall of a superior category of humanity , who see ... kind from those available to the unbeliever . The exact quality of this difference in kind is not clear from Decline and ...
... kind of spiritual superiority . This suggestion in Decline and Fall of a superior category of humanity , who see ... kind from those available to the unbeliever . The exact quality of this difference in kind is not clear from Decline and ...
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... kind of belief , and Eric is faced with the familiar choice . The possibili- ties of social action seem too remote , too inaccessible to someone of his class and background . Instead we learn at the end of the novel of Eric's conversion ...
... kind of belief , and Eric is faced with the familiar choice . The possibili- ties of social action seem too remote , too inaccessible to someone of his class and background . Instead we learn at the end of the novel of Eric's conversion ...
Contents
A Common Background | 1 |
Fiction and Belief | 18 |
The Catholic Novelist | 62 |
Copyright | |
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