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... rendering of them but on his execution of the novel as a whole . John Holloway has shown in The Victorian Sage how Hardy plants his vision of the nature of things , of which his characters are at once testimony and victims , and subdues ...
... rendering of them but on his execution of the novel as a whole . John Holloway has shown in The Victorian Sage how Hardy plants his vision of the nature of things , of which his characters are at once testimony and victims , and subdues ...
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... rendering it in the novel . By 1740 , both in France and England , the novel was , as it were , in the air , already in existence potentially ; all that was needed was someone to write it ; and Richardson and Marivaux have much in ...
... rendering it in the novel . By 1740 , both in France and England , the novel was , as it were , in the air , already in existence potentially ; all that was needed was someone to write it ; and Richardson and Marivaux have much in ...
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... rendering of the growth of a girl to young womanhood , a girl marked by intellectual distinction , a generously ... rendered . It is rendered with affection , with humour , and with complete understanding . Yet it seems that George ...
... rendering of the growth of a girl to young womanhood , a girl marked by intellectual distinction , a generously ... rendered . It is rendered with affection , with humour , and with complete understanding . Yet it seems that George ...
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