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... appears to be that of the caricaturist . We should , therefore , expect his characters to be ' flat ' , in E. M. ... appear only once , met and passed in the course of Joseph's and Adam's peregrinations . But we feel , of Mrs Tow ...
... appears to be that of the caricaturist . We should , therefore , expect his characters to be ' flat ' , in E. M. ... appear only once , met and passed in the course of Joseph's and Adam's peregrinations . But we feel , of Mrs Tow ...
Page 113
... appear a paradox : it will seem less so when we remember that it was from the Waverley Novels that Balzac learnt the art which gave us the Comédie humaine , an œuvre historical only if a vast , detailed picture of the author's own times ...
... appear a paradox : it will seem less so when we remember that it was from the Waverley Novels that Balzac learnt the art which gave us the Comédie humaine , an œuvre historical only if a vast , detailed picture of the author's own times ...
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... appear in her work . But 1859 saw the publication not only of Adam Bede but also of another first novel , by a younger writer : George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel . Together , vastly different though they are , they stand ...
... appear in her work . But 1859 saw the publication not only of Adam Bede but also of another first novel , by a younger writer : George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel . Together , vastly different though they are , they stand ...
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