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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... past . If we are encouraged to look back , it is only to make us look forward more keenly . It is a mark of a caring society that the most outlandish practices are rendered safe . ( Which can relieve pressure on the NHS . ) Miss Cane ...
... past . If we are encouraged to look back , it is only to make us look forward more keenly . It is a mark of a caring society that the most outlandish practices are rendered safe . ( Which can relieve pressure on the NHS . ) Miss Cane ...
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... past ( which one certainly wouldn't want to praise unduly ) , things went unspoken , were left unsaid , there weren't so many words around . ( There was no incessantly chattering television , among other things . ) ' Having words ...
... past ( which one certainly wouldn't want to praise unduly ) , things went unspoken , were left unsaid , there weren't so many words around . ( There was no incessantly chattering television , among other things . ) ' Having words ...
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... past , the glorious ... Oldie , The , 86 , 151-2 , 163 Oliphant , Margaret , 23 , 61 Orczy , Baroness : The Scarlet Pimpernel , 57 Orwell , George ( Eric Blair ) , 50 Owen , Wilfred : Preface , 123-4 Oxford University Press , 2 , 41 ...
... past , the glorious ... Oldie , The , 86 , 151-2 , 163 Oliphant , Margaret , 23 , 61 Orczy , Baroness : The Scarlet Pimpernel , 57 Orwell , George ( Eric Blair ) , 50 Owen , Wilfred : Preface , 123-4 Oxford University Press , 2 , 41 ...
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