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... novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own personal , idiosyncratic vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is , so to speak , populated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about ...
... novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own personal , idiosyncratic vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is , so to speak , populated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about ...
Page 152
... novelist . But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness ... novelist of a Shakespearean order is a pretty shaky one ; and to call Dickens a great popular entertainer rather than ...
... novelist . But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness ... novelist of a Shakespearean order is a pretty shaky one ; and to call Dickens a great popular entertainer rather than ...
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... novelist is less occupied in looking for the truth than the historian , and in doing so it deprives him at a stroke of all his standing - room ' . James is making a claim for the novelist not exactly new - in her own way George Eliot ...
... novelist is less occupied in looking for the truth than the historian , and in doing so it deprives him at a stroke of all his standing - room ' . James is making a claim for the novelist not exactly new - in her own way George Eliot ...
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