From a Cornish Window
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By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 25 Feb, 2020
I seem to perceive that the day of the Superman is drawing to its close. He is a recurring nuisance, like the influenza, and no doubt will afflict mankind again in due season. But our generation has enjoyed a peculiarly poisonous variety of him. In h ... Read more
I seem to perceive that the day of the Superman is drawing to its close. He is a recurring nuisance, like the influenza, and no doubt will afflict mankind again in due season. But our generation has enjoyed a peculiarly poisonous variety of him. In his Renaissance guise, whether projected upon actual history, as in the person of Richard III or strutting sublimated through Marlowe's blank verse, he spared at any rate to sentimentalise his brutality. Less
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  • 2009-10-04
  • English
  • 9780530109893
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