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Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the ...Roger Matuz - 1990 0810344319 However, there are some less than subtle differences between this Brian and the Brian of Key to the Door. The Malayan communists, for example, have faded in his memory with remarkable rapidity. Is this
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Open Door, is the older brother of Arthur Seaton; the first novel to have been written in what is now termed the "Seaton trilogy" is actually the third in the chronology of the plots. The novels of the "William
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