The Rock Pool" ... satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results."--Goodreads |
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... American toys and crockery found in a ... .. adventures of an excavator in a ... came the Greeks , Romans , Saracens , Lombards , each left on the little old hill town something of their ... .. last of all came the American artists and ...
... American toys and crockery found in a ... .. adventures of an excavator in a ... came the Greeks , Romans , Saracens , Lombards , each left on the little old hill town something of their ... .. last of all came the American artists and ...
Page 16
... American must have been there at least that morning . Yet the idea was too good to lose - why not , after all , go on and study the remaining inha- bitants in the same way ? There were , for that matter , always a few people in the ...
... American must have been there at least that morning . Yet the idea was too good to lose - why not , after all , go on and study the remaining inha- bitants in the same way ? There were , for that matter , always a few people in the ...
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... American with a mean expression , and his friend Jimmy , another tough- looking creature except for an intimate little voice of the ' Vortex ' period and a mop of peroxide hair . There was also an unfrocked clergyman who had followed an ...
... American with a mean expression , and his friend Jimmy , another tough- looking creature except for an intimate little voice of the ' Vortex ' period and a mop of peroxide hair . There was also an unfrocked clergyman who had followed an ...
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