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Civilization and Unreality
van Doren, Dorothy | June 18, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises two books. They are "Kindness in a Corner," by T.F. Powys and "Apples Be Ripe," by Llewelyn Powys. These are frank books, amusingly so in the case of "Kindness in a Corner." They are bold and at the same time gentle. And they are written with expertness and delicacy. This is the naturalism that accepts all experience; because all experience has been perceived; that is surprised at nothing, because life is full of surprises. The honest country men in both these novels take birth and death and bedding maids and receiving Holy Communion in much the same spirit

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BOOKS & reading; KINDNESS in a Corner (Book); APPLES Be Ripe (Book); POWYS, T. F.; POWYS, Llewelyn; EXPERIENCE
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