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... Bennett thirty . Of these , perhaps ten of Wells's are still valuable in their own right , if the best of the scientific romances are included , and , more certainly , five of Bennett's . Wells was born in 1866 , Bennett a year later ...
... Bennett thirty . Of these , perhaps ten of Wells's are still valuable in their own right , if the best of the scientific romances are included , and , more certainly , five of Bennett's . Wells was born in 1866 , Bennett a year later ...
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... Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself , was fresh material for English fiction . It was in every way ugly , and yet however un ...
... Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself , was fresh material for English fiction . It was in every way ugly , and yet however un ...
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... Bennett was brought up in and which he early abandoned without much sympathy for it . But he treats it with absolute fairness : Methodism was an integral part of the community in which his actions took place , the channel of its ...
... Bennett was brought up in and which he early abandoned without much sympathy for it . But he treats it with absolute fairness : Methodism was an integral part of the community in which his actions took place , the channel of its ...
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