The Essay: A Critical AnthologyJohn Lincoln Stewart Essays for both the student and the general reader, with comment by the editor. |
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... person directly to the reader . In " A Raid in the Desert , " T. E. Lawrence gives an account of his efforts , made in pitch darkness , to find an unexploded mine with a sensitive trigger . The essay seems to take us to the very spot ...
... person directly to the reader . In " A Raid in the Desert , " T. E. Lawrence gives an account of his efforts , made in pitch darkness , to find an unexploded mine with a sensitive trigger . The essay seems to take us to the very spot ...
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... person well grounded in doublethink to avoid doing this , but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished . A person growing up with Newspeak as his sole language would no more know that equal ...
... person well grounded in doublethink to avoid doing this , but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished . A person growing up with Newspeak as his sole language would no more know that equal ...
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... person happened to be put to death , the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality , as a prime dainty , and that , in his time , the body of a plump girl of fifteen , who was crucified for an attempt to poison the Emperor ...
... person happened to be put to death , the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality , as a prime dainty , and that , in his time , the body of a plump girl of fifteen , who was crucified for an attempt to poison the Emperor ...
Contents
Introductory Comment | 3 |
When Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes JOHN DICKSON CARR | 11 |
New England Xanadu SIGMUND DIAMOND | 32 |
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