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... story which is also a social fable . It is a genre which has lapsed since Dickens . The detective story - though Dickens ' friend Wilkie Collins preserved a certain amount of social satire has dropped out the Dickensian social con- tent ...
... story which is also a social fable . It is a genre which has lapsed since Dickens . The detective story - though Dickens ' friend Wilkie Collins preserved a certain amount of social satire has dropped out the Dickensian social con- tent ...
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... story which takes its place among the war prints of Callot and Goya , artists whose union of elegance with sharpness has already been recalled by Hemingway in his earlier battle pieces : a story which might have been written about ...
... story which takes its place among the war prints of Callot and Goya , artists whose union of elegance with sharpness has already been recalled by Hemingway in his earlier battle pieces : a story which might have been written about ...
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... stories . There is a won- derful piece of writing at the end when the reader is made to realize that what has seemed to be an escape by plane , with the sick man looking down on Africa , is only the dream of a dying man . The other story ...
... stories . There is a won- derful piece of writing at the end when the reader is made to realize that what has seemed to be an escape by plane , with the sick man looking down on Africa , is only the dream of a dying man . The other story ...
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