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possible. In. Englan. onal distinction is the only passport to the society of the
great. Whether this distinction arise from fortune, society, a man must have blood,
a million, or genius.' Vivian Grey has the last. The son of a man of letters, he
meets ...
possible. In. Englan. onal distinction is the only passport to the society of the
great. Whether this distinction arise from fortune, society, a man must have blood,
a million, or genius.' Vivian Grey has the last. The son of a man of letters, he
meets ...
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It may safely be asserted with regard to the closeness of his cuts, that had it been
possible for the edge of the sword to leave in the air a permanent substance
wherever it flew past, the space left untouched would have been almost a mould
of ...
It may safely be asserted with regard to the closeness of his cuts, that had it been
possible for the edge of the sword to leave in the air a permanent substance
wherever it flew past, the space left untouched would have been almost a mould
of ...
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It is, if such a thing is possible, a limited universality, true for a certain kind of
community at a certain point in time, a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but
in any industrial provincial community during the last three decades of the ...
It is, if such a thing is possible, a limited universality, true for a certain kind of
community at a certain point in time, a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but
in any industrial provincial community during the last three decades of the ...
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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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