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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... writer of fiction does not create character . It is possible that the writer of genius does , but for most authors there is only one way to write a novel , and that is to put their friends , or other people they are in a position to ...
... writer of fiction does not create character . It is possible that the writer of genius does , but for most authors there is only one way to write a novel , and that is to put their friends , or other people they are in a position to ...
Page 79
... write in one language , the dialect of Pater , Proust , and Henry James , the style that is common to mandarin academic circles given over to clique life and intro- spection . This dead literary English , with its long sentences ...
... write in one language , the dialect of Pater , Proust , and Henry James , the style that is common to mandarin academic circles given over to clique life and intro- spection . This dead literary English , with its long sentences ...
Page 91
... write anything about it ? ” " Well , no , not exactly - not yet . " " Did they pay you to go there ? " " Oh , yes I had fifty pounds to write a book about England . " " Did you go anywhere else ? " " Only London . " " Weren't they ...
... write anything about it ? ” " Well , no , not exactly - not yet . " " Did they pay you to go there ? " " Oh , yes I had fifty pounds to write a book about England . " " Did you go anywhere else ? " " Only London . " " Weren't they ...
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