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Then there is Mr Osbaldistone's clerk, Owen, who lives and thinks wholly in terms
of clerkliness. We move north, to the border, to Osbaldistone Hall, the family seat,
where the family of Frank's uncle, Sir Hildebrand, consume an existence that ...
Then there is Mr Osbaldistone's clerk, Owen, who lives and thinks wholly in terms
of clerkliness. We move north, to the border, to Osbaldistone Hall, the family seat,
where the family of Frank's uncle, Sir Hildebrand, consume an existence that ...
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the deepest sense solitaries, but they are not detached from society; indeed, in
great part the courses their lives take are dictated by the nature of the particular
society in which they have their existence. Nostromo is a political novel in the ...
the deepest sense solitaries, but they are not detached from society; indeed, in
great part the courses their lives take are dictated by the nature of the particular
society in which they have their existence. Nostromo is a political novel in the ...
Page 315
Ford liberates his characters—Henry, Katherine, Cranmer, the Princess Mary,
Cromwell, Throckmorton, and the rest—from the associations encrusting them
from four centuries of bitter sectarian history, so that they live as human beings.
Ford liberates his characters—Henry, Katherine, Cranmer, the Princess Mary,
Cromwell, Throckmorton, and the rest—from the associations encrusting them
from four centuries of bitter sectarian history, so that they live as human beings.
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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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