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Page 63
... plot is not a bad plot , and it is certainly not unskilfully handled ; but it is the wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaint- ance already with the nineteenth ...
... plot is not a bad plot , and it is certainly not unskilfully handled ; but it is the wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaint- ance already with the nineteenth ...
Page 163
... plot of his time ; the indebtednesses are unimportant because the change had to come . The great symbol of the ... plot . Again House sums up : ' One of the reasons why , in the fifties , his novels begin to show a greater complication ...
... plot of his time ; the indebtednesses are unimportant because the change had to come . The great symbol of the ... plot . Again House sums up : ' One of the reasons why , in the fifties , his novels begin to show a greater complication ...
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... plot . Plot in Hardy is his attempt to express the significance of the great design in purely human terms . Failure was almost inescapable , for Hardy , as a man of his time and place , had no completely adequate myth through which his ...
... plot . Plot in Hardy is his attempt to express the significance of the great design in purely human terms . Failure was almost inescapable , for Hardy , as a man of his time and place , had no completely adequate myth through which his ...
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