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Perhaps Sir Charles is the author's dream-picture of himself, a man of lofty birth,
great riches, perfect breeding, endowed with every gift, accomplishment, and
virtue, the very embodiment of noblesse oblige— and surrounded always, like his
...
Perhaps Sir Charles is the author's dream-picture of himself, a man of lofty birth,
great riches, perfect breeding, endowed with every gift, accomplishment, and
virtue, the very embodiment of noblesse oblige— and surrounded always, like his
...
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departed, and with them perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further
Immortals; at any rate, Meredith, for all his great reputation and his enormous
influence at the end of his life, was always a small seller, Hardy so outraged the ...
departed, and with them perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further
Immortals; at any rate, Meredith, for all his great reputation and his enormous
influence at the end of his life, was always a small seller, Hardy so outraged the ...
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was modelled on her; and perhaps the lapses into sentimentality in the presence
of good women were a necessary defence mechanism. So too, perhaps, his
attitude towards his 'bad women'. For one of the striking things about them, about
...
was modelled on her; and perhaps the lapses into sentimentality in the presence
of good women were a necessary defence mechanism. So too, perhaps, his
attitude towards his 'bad women'. For one of the striking things about them, about
...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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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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