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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... 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 rather to condense than to amplify and consequently to produce a book of the exact length on ...
... 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 rather to condense than to amplify and consequently to produce a book of the exact length on ...
Page 53
... women ; the hotels and modern shops ; the stream of buses ; the casino with its false smartness ; the big cabaret with its curiously plumb and vicious bandleader , all disgusted him . In the streets he seemed to wade through quarrelsome ...
... women ; the hotels and modern shops ; the stream of buses ; the casino with its false smartness ; the big cabaret with its curiously plumb and vicious bandleader , all disgusted him . In the streets he seemed to wade through quarrelsome ...
Page 224
... women and queer men - they gave you every- thing except a face and a fortune . ' " " " Well , you're not so normal ... woman knows . " " " " If you say that again I'll slap your face . " " Go on , you old English pansy . You're some ...
... women and queer men - they gave you every- thing except a face and a fortune . ' " " " Well , you're not so normal ... woman knows . " " " " If you say that again I'll slap your face . " " Go on , you old English pansy . You're some ...
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