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Page 168
'This', he is saying, 'is life as I have known it'; and he comments on the action and
characters as he goes along, makes a generalization, and illustrates it with a
brilliant scene, a passage of dialogue, which always takes the action a little
further ...
'This', he is saying, 'is life as I have known it'; and he comments on the action and
characters as he goes along, makes a generalization, and illustrates it with a
brilliant scene, a passage of dialogue, which always takes the action a little
further ...
Page 189
As we begin to read the novel the action is already approaching its end, poised
on the edge of climax. We first see Heathcliff through the eyes of the narrator Mr
Lockwopd, the outsider from the south who has rented Thrushcross Park from
him.
As we begin to read the novel the action is already approaching its end, poised
on the edge of climax. We first see Heathcliff through the eyes of the narrator Mr
Lockwopd, the outsider from the south who has rented Thrushcross Park from
him.
Page 270
In that it succeeds superbly, and it does so because of the precision and intensity
with which action, character, and scene are rendered and the way in which
everything in the novel is subordinated to their realization. As a result, Kidnapped
...
In that it succeeds superbly, and it does so because of the precision and intensity
with which action, character, and scene are rendered and the way in which
everything in the novel is subordinated to their realization. As a result, Kidnapped
...
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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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