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 36
... hands and lying on his back he reached the salt water . Toni von Kandersteg ! It is possible to raise sentimentality to the point of passion and , like the ocean swathing the nape of his floating neck , he felt her beauty envelop him ...
... hands and lying on his back he reached the salt water . Toni von Kandersteg ! It is possible to raise sentimentality to the point of passion and , like the ocean swathing the nape of his floating neck , he felt her beauty envelop him ...
Page 93
... hands , among people , and in places where no Wykehamist , no New Collegeman , no stock- broker , no Naylor had ever previously trod . John Spedding , in his chambers in Grays Inn , George Bowler , in Gracechurch Street , young Kerr in ...
... hands , among people , and in places where no Wykehamist , no New Collegeman , no stock- broker , no Naylor had ever previously trod . John Spedding , in his chambers in Grays Inn , George Bowler , in Gracechurch Street , young Kerr in ...
Page 225
Cyril Connolly. He slapped her . She caught his hand and bit it . He hit her in the face with his disengaged fist and got both hands round her throat , shaking her little head up and down till the teeth rattled . " I hate you understand ...
Cyril Connolly. He slapped her . She caught his hand and bit it . He hit her in the face with his disengaged fist and got both hands round her throat , shaking her little head up and down till the teeth rattled . " I hate you understand ...
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