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While Look Back has some passing similarities to A Streetcar Named Desire, this is a poor-man's version of the William's masterpiece.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Look Back In Anger Fern Siegel 2012
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While Look Back has some passing similarities to A Streetcar Named Desire, this is a poor-man's version of the William's masterpiece.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Look Back In Anger Fern Siegel 2012
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The poor-man who makes something of himself is a gratifying storyline, and it's interesting to see how Borislav envisions and shapes the economic future.
REVIEW: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2008
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The poor-man who makes something of himself is a gratifying storyline, and it's interesting to see how Borislav envisions and shapes the economic future.
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It reads partly like a L. Ron Hubbard pot-boiler though, partly as a poor-man version of H.G. Wells. review: 10-Jan-08 (read in 2008)
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The poor-man who makes something of himself is a gratifying storyline, and it's interesting to see how Borislav envisions and shapes the economic future.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #25 edited by Gardner Dozois 2008
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'A poor-man, 'said Mr. Desires-awake, about his associate.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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But each man thinks his own burden the hardest to bear: the poor-man groans under his poverty, the rich man under the cares that multiply with wealth.
My Novel — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But each man thinks his own burden the hardest to bear: the poor-man groans under his poverty, the rich man under the cares that multiply with wealth.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Having moved from dismal slums, she marveled at the light and views from her "poor-man's penthouse" on the 11th floor.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2012
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