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... Gissing , for one , never succeeded in adapt- ing himself to the much shorter length . Of itself it would have been enough to kill the huge sprawling novel of the Victorians ; the loss is obvious if we think of David Copperfield ...
... Gissing , for one , never succeeded in adapt- ing himself to the much shorter length . Of itself it would have been enough to kill the huge sprawling novel of the Victorians ; the loss is obvious if we think of David Copperfield ...
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... Gissing remains the novelist of the special case his own . It is presented in an idealized form in what has always ... Gissing's does not contain even a Lucy in russet gown and apron blue . Ryecroft represents a dream of such ...
... Gissing remains the novelist of the special case his own . It is presented in an idealized form in what has always ... Gissing's does not contain even a Lucy in russet gown and apron blue . Ryecroft represents a dream of such ...
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... Gissing's self - pity . New Grub Street strikes one as special pleading for a special case . Through the Gissing man we see the world as through a distorting lens ; but it is a lens of extraordinary power . There is the one exception ...
... Gissing's self - pity . New Grub Street strikes one as special pleading for a special case . Through the Gissing man we see the world as through a distorting lens ; but it is a lens of extraordinary power . There is the one exception ...
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