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The title of one of Kamala Markandaya's novels is drawn from S.T. Coleridge's poem "Work Without Hope".…

Kamala Markandaya's 'Nectar in a Sieve' (1954) takes its title and epigraph from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1825 sonnet 'Work Without Hope': 'Work without hope draws nectar…

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The title of one of Kamala Markandaya's novels is drawn from S.T. Coleridge's poem "Work Without Hope". Identify the novel.

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Kamala Markandaya's 'Nectar in a Sieve' (1954) takes its title and epigraph from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1825 sonnet 'Work Without Hope': 'Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, / And hope without an object cannot live.'

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