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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... thing . I did not have to go through it again altering and emending , or trying to turn men into women and women into men . It did not even matter that it was too short , for , again due to the subversity of Latin , I have been trained ...
... thing . I did not have to go through it again altering and emending , or trying to turn men into women and women into men . It did not even matter that it was too short , for , again due to the subversity of Latin , I have been trained ...
Page 224
... thing out of a cottage garden . " " I'll tell you one thing , Ruby , I might have reformed but you've got so on my nerves that I've been drinking for days down at the pub— so much for your woman's influence . " " Well , so have I - and ...
... thing out of a cottage garden . " " I'll tell you one thing , Ruby , I might have reformed but you've got so on my nerves that I've been drinking for days down at the pub— so much for your woman's influence . " " Well , so have I - and ...
Page 231
... things because you yourself do things . " " Yes , darling , what a little thinker you are . " " I know these things , you see , just as I knew when I was playing that afternoon that I must stop and go to the door . There's fate at the ...
... things because you yourself do things . " " Yes , darling , what a little thinker you are . " " I know these things , you see , just as I knew when I was playing that afternoon that I must stop and go to the door . There's fate at the ...
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