- College students, Fiction, Young women, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line.
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Cool, warm, nostalgic and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Sir Max Beerbohm
- First published
- 1911
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Modern Library c1911, 1926, W. Heinemann, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 172
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781980940562
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“THAT old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line.”
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