Simon Raven Quotes
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I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
English Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 28, 1927
Date of Death:
May 12, 2001
Nationality:
English
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Class,
Common,
Early,
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