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... characters by comparison , by the meta- phorical act of reading things similar and different . Although we are never told who these characters are , we know the two orphans are Nell and Fred Trent and the elder brother is Grandfather ...
... characters by comparison , by the meta- phorical act of reading things similar and different . Although we are never told who these characters are , we know the two orphans are Nell and Fred Trent and the elder brother is Grandfather ...
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... characters ; the most despotic characters I have ever known ; who insisted , for instance , that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb , meant expectation , and that a pen - and - ink sky - rocket stood for disadvantageous " ( 53 , 54 ...
... characters ; the most despotic characters I have ever known ; who insisted , for instance , that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb , meant expectation , and that a pen - and - ink sky - rocket stood for disadvantageous " ( 53 , 54 ...
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... characters speak about sexual , social , or military strategy . Yet this dialogue is also no dialogue . It does not pass between those who speak it across the blank spaces of a page or fictional drawing room but emerges simultaneously ...
... characters speak about sexual , social , or military strategy . Yet this dialogue is also no dialogue . It does not pass between those who speak it across the blank spaces of a page or fictional drawing room but emerges simultaneously ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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