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As a convention—and every novelist must expect the reader to accept the
convention he has chosen for his way of narration—it is no more absurd than that
of the omniscient first-person narrator in a novel like David Copperfield, or the ...
As a convention—and every novelist must expect the reader to accept the
convention he has chosen for his way of narration—it is no more absurd than that
of the omniscient first-person narrator in a novel like David Copperfield, or the ...
Page 160
But how little you know of the rightful umbleness of a person in my station, Master
Copperfield! Father and me was both brought up at a foundation school for boys;
and mother, she was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable ...
But how little you know of the rightful umbleness of a person in my station, Master
Copperfield! Father and me was both brought up at a foundation school for boys;
and mother, she was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable ...
Page 273
... practice of writing them—but in spite of its faults in construction and its author's
tendency to generalize on the action in his own person, it has monolithic power,
and the nightmare vividness with which controlled hate can illuminate its subject.
... practice of writing them—but in spite of its faults in construction and its author's
tendency to generalize on the action in his own person, it has monolithic power,
and the nightmare vividness with which controlled hate can illuminate its subject.
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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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