The Rings of SaturnHarvill Press, 1999 - 296 Seiten W. G. Sebald's new book is a work of imaginative literature, the fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, Sebald's home for the last 20 years. It is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. |
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... earth that numbered as many souls as were annihilated in sea - battles of this kind . The agony that was endured and the enormity of the havoc wrought defeat our powers of comprehension , just as we cannot conceive the vastness of the ...
... earth that numbered as many souls as were annihilated in sea - battles of this kind . The agony that was endured and the enormity of the havoc wrought defeat our powers of comprehension , just as we cannot conceive the vastness of the ...
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... earth to have remained hitherto untouched by the blessings of civilization . The aim , said King Leopold , was to break through the darkness in which whole peoples still dwelt , and to mount a crusade in order to bring this glorious ...
... earth to have remained hitherto untouched by the blessings of civilization . The aim , said King Leopold , was to break through the darkness in which whole peoples still dwelt , and to mount a crusade in order to bring this glorious ...
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... earth from where they originally grew and transported , often over considerable distances , by specially trained teams of elephants . Never before , Swinburne is said to have claimed that evening in Dunwich , nor ever since , had ...
... earth from where they originally grew and transported , often over considerable distances , by specially trained teams of elephants . Never before , Swinburne is said to have claimed that evening in Dunwich , nor ever since , had ...
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already amidst ANGELES Aris Kindt Ashbury Bawdsey beach Beccles body Boulge Bredfield Browne's building CALIFORN Casement century clouds coast Congo dark dead death deserted Ditchingham dream Dunwich Dunwich Heath earth Empress empty eyes fields fire fish FitzGerald garden gaze German green grey hall hand head hour hundred Independent on Sunday Janine knew Konrad Korzeniowski land later LIBRARY light lived London looked LOS ANGELES Lowestoft Michael miles morning mulberry never night North Sea Norwich once Orford palace park perhaps reached recall remained Roger Casement seemed sericulture Shingle Street ships silk cultivation silkworms sitting Somerleyton Southwold stone stood strange Suffolk summer Swinburne Temple things Thomas Abrams Thomas Browne thought thousand took towers town travelled trees turn UNIVERS UNIVERSITY Vicomte W. G. Sebald walked walls window writing