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 The Spectator
Nearly a burnt-out case
12/10/2005: 1,243 words, approx. 4 pages MELVILLE : HIS WORLD AND HIS WORK by Andrew Delbanco Picador, £25, pp. 415, ISBN 033037107X . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Would-be artists clinging to the belief that they are in possession of strangely unrecognised genius draw comfort from the...
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 The Washington Post
Another Burnt-Out Case
02/09/1992: 898 words, approx. 3 pages THE HALF MAN By George Packer Random House. 306 pp. $20 EVERY MAN in this story is a half man; the women are no more whole. And if the landscape seems of a piece, that is an illusion. Direv Saraun...



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Critical Essay by Christine De Vinne
3,136 words, approx. 11 pages
 In the following essay, De Vinne discusses the metaphorical significance of children and childhood in A Burnt-Out Case. According to De Vinne, "childhood corresponds with falsehood while adulthood symbolizes truth" in the novel.
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Critical Essay by Julian Symons
2,074 words, approx. 7 pages
 [Graham Greene] has often been praised for the quality of his observation, but this lies in the creation of an atmosphere appropriate to period, place and characters rather than in what things actually look like. There are few detailed descriptions of people in the novels: lips, noses, figures are rarely made explicit, and the description of Father Thomas's nose in A Burnt-Out Case has the shock of rarity. Places give off an exotic feeling that is almost invariable, whether it is the river down which...
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