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for years, and long before this present work was even dreamed o to how many
articles in periodicals and reviews of new fiction, thos of Edwin Muir during his
long spell on The Listener, for exampl published during the past twenty-five years
; ...
for years, and long before this present work was even dreamed o to how many
articles in periodicals and reviews of new fiction, thos of Edwin Muir during his
long spell on The Listener, for exampl published during the past twenty-five years
; ...
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»f the writers of fiction. For a period of about seventy years before he publication
of Pamela in 1740 we are, as it were, in frontier erritory, in a sort of Alsace-
Lorraine of literature. The blood of the nhabitants is mixed; some are obviously, ...
»f the writers of fiction. For a period of about seventy years before he publication
of Pamela in 1740 we are, as it were, in frontier erritory, in a sort of Alsace-
Lorraine of literature. The blood of the nhabitants is mixed; some are obviously, ...
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The year 1890, however, is a date of the first importance in the history of English
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, ...
The year 1890, however, is a date of the first importance in the history of English
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, ...
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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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