Word: mittyland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure who has gone away to find the freedom yearned after by the miserable hero, who hangs suspended between poverty and affluence in a lower-middle-class house in Yorkshire. He hides in a world of lies. He lies to others and he lies to himself, creating a Walter Mittyland called Ambrosia, of which he is king...
...that most of the nature men are British and resolute mavericks, who have turned their backs on modern, industrialized urban life. Each is very much his own man in a world of courage, cunning, and solitude-qualities that invade the suburban commuter's mind in recurring fantasies of Mittyland. The pull of the books is the lure of a lost horizon, a kind of pre-Eden, with free men and animals sharing the primordial rhythms of Nature...
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