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a miser, is robbed of his gold, and redeemed and brought back to himan
fellowship by the discovery and adoption of a golden-haired baby girl; only
George Eliot could have succeeded with it in her own time, and no novelist of any
seriousness ...
a miser, is robbed of his gold, and redeemed and brought back to himan
fellowship by the discovery and adoption of a golden-haired baby girl; only
George Eliot could have succeeded with it in her own time, and no novelist of any
seriousness ...
Page 218
But it is no longer exactly new, and it wasn't when George Eliot was writing; and
Felix Holt remains as it were a frozen attitude, almost a propagandist's dummy, as
may be seen if he is compared with his silly old mother, who is alive from the ...
But it is no longer exactly new, and it wasn't when George Eliot was writing; and
Felix Holt remains as it were a frozen attitude, almost a propagandist's dummy, as
may be seen if he is compared with his silly old mother, who is alive from the ...
Page 304
The boy is George Ponderevo, the hero and the narrator. It was probably fatal
that Wells decided to tell his story in the first person, especially since Ponderevo
is as much concerned with ideas as his creator; it meant almost inevitably that
ideas ...
The boy is George Ponderevo, the hero and the narrator. It was probably fatal
that Wells decided to tell his story in the first person, especially since Ponderevo
is as much concerned with ideas as his creator; it meant almost inevitably that
ideas ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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