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But the two great characters of Clarissa are the heroine and Lovelace. V. S.
Pritchett has said that Richardson was mad—mad about sex, and I doubt whether
it is possible for the critic who comes to Clarissa after reading Freud to deny that
the ...
But the two great characters of Clarissa are the heroine and Lovelace. V. S.
Pritchett has said that Richardson was mad—mad about sex, and I doubt whether
it is possible for the critic who comes to Clarissa after reading Freud to deny that
the ...
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that I've done; for I've taught her everything as belongs to a house, an' I've told
her her duty often enough, though, God knows, I've no breath to spare, an' that
catchin' pain comes on dreadful by times. Wi' them three gells in the house I'd
need ...
that I've done; for I've taught her everything as belongs to a house, an' I've told
her her duty often enough, though, God knows, I've no breath to spare, an' that
catchin' pain comes on dreadful by times. Wi' them three gells in the house I'd
need ...
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o. inhabiting them. They are rendered with the humorous affection that comes
from delight in idiosyncrasy. Moore's true successor in Naturalism, apart from
Bennett in one or two early novels and Riceyman Steps towards the end of his
career, ...
o. inhabiting them. They are rendered with the humorous affection that comes
from delight in idiosyncrasy. Moore's true successor in Naturalism, apart from
Bennett in one or two early novels and Riceyman Steps towards the end of his
career, ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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| 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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