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Page 74
You believe you think logically, that one thought follows another in orderly
sequence, that you are in control of your ... write—It must follow, an' please your
worships, that the more I write, the more I shall have to write—and consequently,
the ...
You believe you think logically, that one thought follows another in orderly
sequence, that you are in control of your ... write—It must follow, an' please your
worships, that the more I write, the more I shall have to write—and consequently,
the ...
Page 79
Yet he had real powers of invention and could write a swift, effective satirical
scene and follow it instantly with another; if the chapters describing how a
clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her
husband and ...
Yet he had real powers of invention and could write a swift, effective satirical
scene and follow it instantly with another; if the chapters describing how a
clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her
husband and ...
Page 256
But there was another influence as potent, Balzac's, and the two novels that
follow The Portrait, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, both of
which appeared in 1886, follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying
behind them ...
But there was another influence as potent, Balzac's, and the two novels that
follow The Portrait, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, both of
which appeared in 1886, follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying
behind them ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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