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... novel the significance of Stevie's “ circles , circles , circles ; innumerable circles , concentric , eccentric ; a coruscating whirl of circles that by their tangled multitude of re- peated curves , uniformity of form , and confusion ...
... novel the significance of Stevie's “ circles , circles , circles ; innumerable circles , concentric , eccentric ; a coruscating whirl of circles that by their tangled multitude of re- peated curves , uniformity of form , and confusion ...
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... novel about an- archy ? And he wrote two , The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes . In The Secret Agent , the earlier of the two , we find Conrad's usual dualism doubled . There is controller and controlled , but then a doubleness to ...
... novel about an- archy ? And he wrote two , The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes . In The Secret Agent , the earlier of the two , we find Conrad's usual dualism doubled . There is controller and controlled , but then a doubleness to ...
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... novel , though they differ as to its merits , find the murder its high point . The critics , I think , are saying Conrad's special style ( or charac- ter ) succeeds in that chapter , much less so in the rest of the novel . But the novel ...
... novel , though they differ as to its merits , find the murder its high point . The critics , I think , are saying Conrad's special style ( or charac- ter ) succeeds in that chapter , much less so in the rest of the novel . But the novel ...
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