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For my own part, when I look back, it seems hat the main concern of my life since
I was a schoolboy has been eading ... of my own, is primarily an account of what
the history f the novel in England looks like to someone who follows the craft f ...
For my own part, when I look back, it seems hat the main concern of my life since
I was a schoolboy has been eading ... of my own, is primarily an account of what
the history f the novel in England looks like to someone who follows the craft f ...
Page 225
When one looks at his fiction àSTâ whole, however, it seems much more likely
than not that Meredith's present eclipse will ... We look for the rendering of social
life that we find in Thackeray, Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, and Gissing, ...
When one looks at his fiction àSTâ whole, however, it seems much more likely
than not that Meredith's present eclipse will ... We look for the rendering of social
life that we find in Thackeray, Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, and Gissing, ...
Page 286
But when we 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 conceived by a novelist who is so steeped in Dickens
that ...
But when we 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 conceived by a novelist who is so steeped in Dickens
that ...
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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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