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... readers who feel uneasy about this , and resent extremes of pessimism in the fiction they love . Perhaps they would not take it so hard if they did not ( inevitably ) find an echo of this disenchantment in themselves . What many readers ...
... readers who feel uneasy about this , and resent extremes of pessimism in the fiction they love . Perhaps they would not take it so hard if they did not ( inevitably ) find an echo of this disenchantment in themselves . What many readers ...
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... readers . In her way she was as little committed to the wilder excesses of this escapist need as - on close ... reader : the reader who does find it possible to achieve that momentary hesitation which allows a wild idea to sting his ...
... readers . In her way she was as little committed to the wilder excesses of this escapist need as - on close ... reader : the reader who does find it possible to achieve that momentary hesitation which allows a wild idea to sting his ...
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... readers ) this is over - simplified , but it does serve to point out the fact that in today's world there tends to be an ever - widen- ing gulf between what writers think literature should be used for and what read- ers actually do use ...
... readers ) this is over - simplified , but it does serve to point out the fact that in today's world there tends to be an ever - widen- ing gulf between what writers think literature should be used for and what read- ers actually do use ...
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