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After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920
ISBN: 9780813155623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake. Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists of the thirties and forties -- Graham Greene, Joyce Cary, L. P. Hartley, C. P. Snow, who... In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression an... |
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On a Darkling Plain: The Art & Thought of Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780367110734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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On a Darkling Plain: The Art & Thought of Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780367110710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1947 and presenting the famed poet-novelist against the background of contemporary thought and society, Harvey Curtis Webster shows that Hardy's later works give consistent evidence of hope; that pervasive pessimism was by no means the keynote of Hardy's thought. On a Darkling Plain traces the evolution of Hardy's thought, from faith, through disillusionment, to a cautious belief in the ultimate progress of man.
Originally published in 1947 and presenting the famed poet-novelist against the background of contemporary thought and society, Harvey Curtis Webster ...
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538,76 |