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... fiction , those of Edwin Muir during his long spell on The Listener , for example , published during the past twenty - five years ; to books on subjects formally quite unrelated to fiction . The critics who have shaped of influenced ...
... fiction , those of Edwin Muir during his long spell on The Listener , for example , published during the past twenty - five years ; to books on subjects formally quite unrelated to fiction . The critics who have shaped of influenced ...
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... fiction as in diarists like Pepys and Evelyn , for the arts of autobiography and memoir - writing were a twin - birth with that of the novel . In France and Spain romances of real life had already appeared in the form of works written ...
... fiction as in diarists like Pepys and Evelyn , for the arts of autobiography and memoir - writing were a twin - birth with that of the novel . In France and Spain romances of real life had already appeared in the form of works written ...
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... fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was her first work of fiction proper , and had she written nothing else , P. H. Newby's suggestive ...
... fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was her first work of fiction proper , and had she written nothing else , P. H. Newby's suggestive ...
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