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... look back , it seems that the main concern of my life since I was a schoolboy has been reading novels , discussing ... looks like to someone who follows the craft of fiction himself . Even so , it is not the book I originally planned to ...
... look back , it seems that the main concern of my life since I was a schoolboy has been reading novels , discussing ... looks like to someone who follows the craft of fiction himself . Even so , it is not the book I originally planned to ...
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... looks at his fiction as a whole , however , it seems much more likely than not that Meredith's present eclipse will prove ... look for the rendering of social life that we find in Thackeray , Trollope , George Eliot , Henry James , and ...
... looks at his fiction as a whole , however , it seems much more likely than not that Meredith's present eclipse will prove ... look for the rendering of social life that we find in Thackeray , Trollope , George Eliot , Henry James , and ...
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... look at the characters in the novel we see they are like nothing in Naturalism . Captain Kemp , Mr Cripps , Mrs Grimes , are either natural Dickens characters or characters con- ceived by a novelist who is so steeped in Dickens that ...
... look at the characters in the novel we see they are like nothing in Naturalism . Captain Kemp , Mr Cripps , Mrs Grimes , are either natural Dickens characters or characters con- ceived by a novelist who is so steeped in Dickens that ...
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