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At this point the unsatisfactoriness of the plot reveals itself. By his very nature
Booth is a doomed man; in reality not even an Amelia could have saved him. But
in the last pages, all is put right: it is discovered that the will by which Amelia had
...
At this point the unsatisfactoriness of the plot reveals itself. By his very nature
Booth is a doomed man; in reality not even an Amelia could have saved him. But
in the last pages, all is put right: it is discovered that the will by which Amelia had
...
Page 163
subordination of everything in the book to the working out of the plot, is Dombey
and Son. Perhaps he was influenced by Mrs Gaskell, ~ as in later novels he was
certainly influenced by Wilkie Collins, who was the greatest master of plot of his ...
subordination of everything in the book to the working out of the plot, is Dombey
and Son. Perhaps he was influenced by Mrs Gaskell, ~ as in later novels he was
certainly influenced by Wilkie Collins, who was the greatest master of plot of his ...
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But these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they
would in any other novelist; they are botches, but they do not ruin the work,
because though large enough when measured in terms of plot they are small
when ...
But these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they
would in any other novelist; they are botches, but they do not ruin the work,
because though large enough when measured in terms of plot they are small
when ...
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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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