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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... present didn't oblige him to like the present . The book is also part polemic , part sottisier . It sets its face against false fashions and approved - of brutalities , against the coarsening and dehumanizing of contemporary life . One ...
... present didn't oblige him to like the present . The book is also part polemic , part sottisier . It sets its face against false fashions and approved - of brutalities , against the coarsening and dehumanizing of contemporary life . One ...
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... present ' ( for example by suggesting that the present Emperor wasn't really unique ) . However , books have a way of returning from the dead , of popping up in time's backlist . Sufficient documents survived for Sima Qian to record the ...
... present ' ( for example by suggesting that the present Emperor wasn't really unique ) . However , books have a way of returning from the dead , of popping up in time's backlist . Sufficient documents survived for Sima Qian to record the ...
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... present phase of Western literature is inescap- ably one of " higher autobiography " , intensely self - inspecting . . . No more stories : the author is increasingly committed to the private being . ' The way things are going – higher ...
... present phase of Western literature is inescap- ably one of " higher autobiography " , intensely self - inspecting . . . No more stories : the author is increasingly committed to the private being . ' The way things are going – higher ...
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