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Page 381
... Bennett in his fiction made them five , for the sake of euphony - that now make up the city of Stoke - on- Trent ... Bennett , the Pot- teries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene ...
... Bennett in his fiction made them five , for the sake of euphony - that now make up the city of Stoke - on- Trent ... Bennett , the Pot- teries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene ...
Page 385
... Bennett's most deliberately and seriously pondered work ; we have its moment of conception , recorded the next day in the Journal ; and we know that in writing it Bennett was in conscious rivalry with Maupassant in Une Vie . But perhaps ...
... Bennett's most deliberately and seriously pondered work ; we have its moment of conception , recorded the next day in the Journal ; and we know that in writing it Bennett was in conscious rivalry with Maupassant in Une Vie . But perhaps ...
Page 387
... Bennett's overriding conception , and one is left with the feeling that never has the rhythm of ordinary life , life ... Bennett set himself — the limits are those of life conceived as being wholly in time - The Old Wives ' Tale is ...
... Bennett's overriding conception , and one is left with the feeling that never has the rhythm of ordinary life , life ... Bennett set himself — the limits are those of life conceived as being wholly in time - The Old Wives ' Tale is ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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