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Daily Archives: August 6, 2011
“The Go-Between” and “Where Angels Fear to Tread”
Leo Colston is, like Steerpike, Mole and Charles Ryder, a middle-class observer of the English aristocrat in 20th-century decline. Of the three, Mole remains a naïve observer, whereas the other two follow the contemporary developments in quantum physics by causing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brideshead, Conrad, Forster, Gormenghast, Hartley, Modernism, The Wind in the Willows
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