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Page 107
... hero , though an Anglo - American , is an agent of the Communist secret police , engaged in catching Fascist spies in Spain ; and his principal exploit in the course of the play is clearing out , with the aid of a single Communist , an ...
... hero , though an Anglo - American , is an agent of the Communist secret police , engaged in catching Fascist spies in Spain ; and his principal exploit in the course of the play is clearing out , with the aid of a single Communist , an ...
Page 111
... hero of A Farewell to Arms eventually destroys Catherine- after enjoying her abject devotion - by giving her a baby , itself born dead . The only women with whom Nick Adams ' relations are perfectly satisfactory are the little Indian ...
... hero of A Farewell to Arms eventually destroys Catherine- after enjoying her abject devotion - by giving her a baby , itself born dead . The only women with whom Nick Adams ' relations are perfectly satisfactory are the little Indian ...
Page 119
... Hero's town , On Hero's heart Leander lies . " ) So , slightly emending the text , he turned a meaningless accepted reading of Juvenal , " Perditus ac vilis sacci mercator olentis , " into a characteristically vivid satiric stroke ...
... Hero's town , On Hero's heart Leander lies . " ) So , slightly emending the text , he turned a meaningless accepted reading of Juvenal , " Perditus ac vilis sacci mercator olentis , " into a characteristically vivid satiric stroke ...
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