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"They came from the same estate; a small Highland farm called Broch Tuarach-it was known locally as Lallybroch.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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Thames & Hudson This drawing by E.D. Broch, from the 1894 edition of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, shows Gulliver awakening to find himself a prisoner of the tiny Lilliputians, during the first voyage recounted in the book.
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Anyone who has read Broch's books will know that the burden of patience chiefly falls on the reader, for Broch's heavily longueur-laden novels are proof yet again of Santayana's discovery that the Germans are utterly devoid of the emotion of boredom.
A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011
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In her essay on Elias Canetti, Sontag notes his admiration for the novelist Hermann Broch and those great patient novels 'The Death of Virgil' and 'The Sleepwalkers.'
A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011
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It maybe supports sixty crofts, and the small village-Broch Mordha, it's called.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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It was by your insistence-yours and Colum's-that Broch Tuarach might be held by a woman.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Broch tells stories of some amazing coincidences that happened to him and his friends, all of them easily explained as consequences of Littlewood's Law.
Common Miracles eddvick 2007
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The novel after Joyce is, in the main, divided between the two poles of introspective narration and lyric experiment defined by Musil and by Broch.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The novel after Joyce is, in the main, divided between the two poles of introspective narration and lyric experiment defined by Musil and by Broch.
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Translated by Jean Starr Untermeyer (1928); Broch, Hermann.
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