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... contemporary fiction and writing fiction of my own , is primarily an account of what the history of the novel in ... contemporary novel . The contemporary novel has its own problems , its own excellencies and , I would say , its own ...
... contemporary fiction and writing fiction of my own , is primarily an account of what the history of the novel in ... contemporary novel . The contemporary novel has its own problems , its own excellencies and , I would say , its own ...
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... contemporary , and classic , ' G. M. Young has written ; ' to meet the Immortals in the street , and to read them with added zest for the encounter . ' The Immortals in question were men and women in early middle age . Within thirty ...
... contemporary , and classic , ' G. M. Young has written ; ' to meet the Immortals in the street , and to read them with added zest for the encounter . ' The Immortals in question were men and women in early middle age . Within thirty ...
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... contemporary ' scientific ' historian . But in any case a meticulous fidelity to life is of its essence . To ask it to falsify nature would be to destroy it . This law of ' fanatical scrupulosity ' , however , is operative only when the ...
... contemporary ' scientific ' historian . But in any case a meticulous fidelity to life is of its essence . To ask it to falsify nature would be to destroy it . This law of ' fanatical scrupulosity ' , however , is operative only when the ...
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