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... compelled to marry the egregious Mr Solmes, and then, just before a final
attempt at compulsion is to be made on her, ... promising marriage and yet
delaying the necessary preliminary formalities, he makes several attempts on her
chastity, ...
... compelled to marry the egregious Mr Solmes, and then, just before a final
attempt at compulsion is to be made on her, ... promising marriage and yet
delaying the necessary preliminary formalities, he makes several attempts on her
chastity, ...
Page 145
These novels, and those for which they may stand as types, were really exercises
in rhetoric, attempts at heightened ... Such a sentence, and its implications, are
beyond Lytton, as is shown by his attempt to use Sterne's methods in order to ...
These novels, and those for which they may stand as types, were really exercises
in rhetoric, attempts at heightened ... Such a sentence, and its implications, are
beyond Lytton, as is shown by his attempt to use Sterne's methods in order to ...
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Instead, within the brilliantly described world of conventional Anglo-Indian
relations, we have the attempts, fumbling yet moving, of English and Indian—Mrs
Moore, Adela Quested, Fielding on the one hand, Dr Aziz on the other—to make
...
Instead, within the brilliantly described world of conventional Anglo-Indian
relations, we have the attempts, fumbling yet moving, of English and Indian—Mrs
Moore, Adela Quested, Fielding on the one hand, Dr Aziz on the other—to make
...
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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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