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These at their most convincing appear as perceptions of the nature of reality, as
in Helen Schlegel's experience of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in Howard's End
(1910); the passage is quintessentially Forster, and in a sense the whole of him ...
These at their most convincing appear as perceptions of the nature of reality, as
in Helen Schlegel's experience of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in Howard's End
(1910); the passage is quintessentially Forster, and in a sense the whole of him ...
Page 321
When allowance is made for its comparative lightness and whimsicality of
expression, Helen Schlegel's intuition anticipates Mrs Moore's in Marabar Caves,
in A Passage to India, when the echo murmurs to her: 'Pathos, piety, courage—
they ...
When allowance is made for its comparative lightness and whimsicality of
expression, Helen Schlegel's intuition anticipates Mrs Moore's in Marabar Caves,
in A Passage to India, when the echo murmurs to her: 'Pathos, piety, courage—
they ...
Page 325
On this level, A Passage to India is a superb realistic novel, and its conclusion,
with Aziz and Fielding meeting on horse-back in a native state years after Aziz's
trial, is what the facts of the novel dictate: 'Why can't we be friends now?” said the
...
On this level, A Passage to India is a superb realistic novel, and its conclusion,
with Aziz and Fielding meeting on horse-back in a native state years after Aziz's
trial, is what the facts of the novel dictate: 'Why can't we be friends now?” said the
...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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| 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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