Word: hargedon
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...follows a clear pattern, contains a dozen long narrative passages that stand out like detached stories. Its characters are stylized social types rather than conventional realistic portraits: Ben Coventry, blinded during the War, generous, humane, intelligent, helpless, is a symbol of sightless aristocracy that cannot provide social leadership. John Hargedon, the hard-pressed, woman-chasing policeman, is a symbol of leaderless strength and courage that wastes itself. Ben Coventry lives in seclusion in his Beacon Street house, breaks with his class when the amorous wife of an old friend guides him to her house at night, slowly recovers his balance...
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