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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... closed , the hotel is empty , the nymphs have departed . I There is one more objection I should like to answer . have been asked why I chose such unpleasant , unimportant and hopeless people to write about , and why I have shown no ...
... closed , the hotel is empty , the nymphs have departed . I There is one more objection I should like to answer . have been asked why I chose such unpleasant , unimportant and hopeless people to write about , and why I have shown no ...
Page 71
... closed his eyes , opened them , and was sick . For some time after he lay like a crushed snail on a garden path . Rascasse gave him a towel soaked in water and a tumbler of brandy . The sunbeams danced in the window . The flies whirled ...
... closed his eyes , opened them , and was sick . For some time after he lay like a crushed snail on a garden path . Rascasse gave him a towel soaked in water and a tumbler of brandy . The sunbeams danced in the window . The flies whirled ...
Page 215
... closed . It seemed Eddie wouldn't be out of hospital for a long while and the only time he walked up to the top he was depressed by the cactus and bamboos on the side of the hill , for he associated 215 THE ROCK POOL.
... closed . It seemed Eddie wouldn't be out of hospital for a long while and the only time he walked up to the top he was depressed by the cactus and bamboos on the side of the hill , for he associated 215 THE ROCK POOL.
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