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The novel reflects many of the themes of the period such as the fear of change felt by some and the desperate longing for change endured by others.
“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
“He was a lean, contained-looking man, with a clipped grey beard and a mouth that cut across his face on a severe slant, like that of someone who spent his days listening to bullshit.”
― This House of Grief
― This House of Grief
“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Smallbone Deceased
― Smallbone Deceased
“I never lose, I either win or learn”
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“You do not seem to appreciate the intensity of Julia’s feelings towards the Department of Inland Revenue. She is under the impression that it is a vast conspiracy having as its sole objective her physical, mental and financial ruin.”
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
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