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Page 168
... 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 and a little more brightly illuminates the characters ...
... 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 and a little more brightly illuminates the characters ...
Page 189
... action is already approaching its end , poised on the edge of climax . We first see Heathcliff through the eyes of the narrator Mr Lockwood , the outsider from the south who has rented Thrushcross Park from him . We share in Lockwood's ...
... action is already approaching its end , poised on the edge of climax . We first see Heathcliff through the eyes of the narrator Mr Lockwood , the outsider from the south who has rented Thrushcross Park from him . We share in Lockwood's ...
Page 270
... action , character , and scene are ren- dered and the way in which everything in the novel is subordinated to their realization . As a result , Kidnapped seems to have the authenticity and authority of history itself . What began as a ...
... action , character , and scene are ren- dered and the way in which everything in the novel is subordinated to their realization . As a result , Kidnapped seems to have the authenticity and authority of history itself . What began as a ...
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