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Page 97
In a sense, with Bage the class-war enters fiction, for Hermsprong is a completely
intransigent attack on feudalism and the notion of aristocracy. Against the
tyrannical, avaricious Lord Grondale Bage pits 'Man as he is not', man, that is to
say, ...
In a sense, with Bage the class-war enters fiction, for Hermsprong is a completely
intransigent attack on feudalism and the notion of aristocracy. Against the
tyrannical, avaricious Lord Grondale Bage pits 'Man as he is not', man, that is to
say, ...
Page 151
It affects us as Gibbon's does, or Macaulay's; it admits of no hesitations, no half-
lights; it is completely sure, completely dogmatic. Above all, it is witty. The very
structure of his sentences is witty, and his epigrams invite the reader into his ...
It affects us as Gibbon's does, or Macaulay's; it admits of no hesitations, no half-
lights; it is completely sure, completely dogmatic. Above all, it is witty. The very
structure of his sentences is witty, and his epigrams invite the reader into his ...
Page 311
They live entirely in terms of property; money conditions them completely. It takes
the place of family affection, but as a link binding them together it is no less strong
. Their sense of property is so powerful and all-pervasive as to have ossified ...
They live entirely in terms of property; money conditions them completely. It takes
the place of family affection, but as a link binding them together it is no less strong
. Their sense of property is so powerful and all-pervasive as to have ossified ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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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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