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John Carey analyses the elitist view of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as described in his preface, "is about the response of the English literary intelligensia to the new phenomenon of mass culture." This devastating... read more
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- Wyndham Lewis
- H. G. Wells
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- D. H. Lawrence
- T. S. Eliot
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- Elsie
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- Mr Polly
- Aldous Huxley
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- Sophia
- Edwin
- George Orwell
- E. M. Forster
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- Hilda Lessways
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- Thorne
- Canetti
- Betjeman
- Constance
- Holmes
- Chesterton
- Evelyn Waugh
- Clayhanger
- Trotter
- Dowd
- Mrs Brown
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
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