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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
George Steiner
Born: April 23, 1929
Died: February 3, 2020 (aged 90)
Bio: Francis George Steiner was a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust.
Known for:
- After Babel (1975)
- Real presences (1986)
- The Idea of Europe: An Essay (2004)
- Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1960)
- The death of tragedy (1961)
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