Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... later argued that , even so , the officer should be punished for failing to see that the word was easily confused with a certain other one . It seems unfair - if not especially rare that someone should suffer from the ignorance of other ...
... later argued that , even so , the officer should be punished for failing to see that the word was easily confused with a certain other one . It seems unfair - if not especially rare that someone should suffer from the ignorance of other ...
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... later in this book - ' I thought you might be interested to learn of my enclosed tilt against that great literary institution : I have opened a shop - cum - gallery of Oxford shame , right under ( and up ) their noses at 12 Broad Street ...
... later in this book - ' I thought you might be interested to learn of my enclosed tilt against that great literary institution : I have opened a shop - cum - gallery of Oxford shame , right under ( and up ) their noses at 12 Broad Street ...
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... later , draws a comparison between Helmut Kohl , the German Chancellor , and Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge , favouring the latter as a victim of merely a single act of folly , ' who in a moment of drunken madness fells his wife ...
... later , draws a comparison between Helmut Kohl , the German Chancellor , and Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge , favouring the latter as a victim of merely a single act of folly , ' who in a moment of drunken madness fells his wife ...
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