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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Page 9
... English writers , who owed so much to those Latin originals , Congreve , Rochester , Dryden and Pope , I had already sunk so far that I could never find anything to take exception to in their language and their opinions , and it is this ...
... English writers , who owed so much to those Latin originals , Congreve , Rochester , Dryden and Pope , I had already sunk so far that I could never find anything to take exception to in their language and their opinions , and it is this ...
Page 59
... English - one doesn't meet very many English people here . My name's Foster . I say , were you at Oxford ? I was at Cambridge . What 1 did you do ? Did you raow ? did 59 THE ROCK POOL.
... English - one doesn't meet very many English people here . My name's Foster . I say , were you at Oxford ? I was at Cambridge . What 1 did you do ? Did you raow ? did 59 THE ROCK POOL.
Page 78
... English harlotry , nearly all dialogue , some of it in rhyming slang and Soho English , the rest in the genteel demotic speech of furnished flatlets in the Tottenham Court Road . For some months it had taken shape in his mind , not as ...
... English harlotry , nearly all dialogue , some of it in rhyming slang and Soho English , the rest in the genteel demotic speech of furnished flatlets in the Tottenham Court Road . For some months it had taken shape in his mind , not as ...
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