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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... Once a week Christianity became the official religion , but the god whom we struggled to cultivate with the help of the officiating staff was Horace . Since we were mostly engrossed with games and gossip , we did not carry the worship ...
... Once a week Christianity became the official religion , but the god whom we struggled to cultivate with the help of the officiating staff was Horace . Since we were mostly engrossed with games and gossip , we did not carry the worship ...
Page 47
... once possessed enormous estates . These they had lost gambling about seventy years ago , though as the dinner progressed it seemed only yesterday . Her parents lived in poverty in some German town with her two brothers , one a dancer in ...
... once possessed enormous estates . These they had lost gambling about seventy years ago , though as the dinner progressed it seemed only yesterday . Her parents lived in poverty in some German town with her two brothers , one a dancer in ...
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... once had he seen Tahiti , driving slowly through the rain on the road to Cannes with Jimmy in a borrowed roadster . He had got bored with his hair , which , still platinum at the ends , had now a black fuzz growing underneath it and was ...
... once had he seen Tahiti , driving slowly through the rain on the road to Cannes with Jimmy in a borrowed roadster . He had got bored with his hair , which , still platinum at the ends , had now a black fuzz growing underneath it and was ...
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