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There are few novels we can discuss as we can the Immortality Ode, and one
reason for this is the much greater compactness of poetry as compared with
prose, the much greater degree of crystallization which takes place in a poem.
We can ...
There are few novels we can discuss as we can the Immortality Ode, and one
reason for this is the much greater compactness of poetry as compared with
prose, the much greater degree of crystallization which takes place in a poem.
We can ...
Page 163
But the coach, and pedestrianism for those who could not afford the !coach, gave
way before the train with its first-, second-, and third-class compartments, its much
greater speed and its much greater cheapness. And the arrival of the train ...
But the coach, and pedestrianism for those who could not afford the !coach, gave
way before the train with its first-, second-, and third-class compartments, its much
greater speed and its much greater cheapness. And the arrival of the train ...
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It is hardly too much to say that the greater part of his significant work is a
dramatization of the conflict between good and evil. James's range as a novelist
was considerably greater than one might guess either from his admirers or from
his ...
It is hardly too much to say that the greater part of his significant work is a
dramatization of the conflict between good and evil. James's range as a novelist
was considerably greater than one might guess either from his admirers or from
his ...
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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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