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Page 242
... respects , his simplest and most successful tragic novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge . Henchard is his grandest ... respect at any rate , it is Macbeth with whom we have to compare him . External nature fights against Henchard , but ...
... respects , his simplest and most successful tragic novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge . Henchard is his grandest ... respect at any rate , it is Macbeth with whom we have to compare him . External nature fights against Henchard , but ...
Page 248
... respect conforms to the law of fanatical scrupulosity no less than James or George Moore . Stevenson is a relevant figure here , for it was with him that James debated in 1885 the nature of the novel and the function of the novelist ...
... respect conforms to the law of fanatical scrupulosity no less than James or George Moore . Stevenson is a relevant figure here , for it was with him that James debated in 1885 the nature of the novel and the function of the novelist ...
Page 256
... respect , regardless of comfort or personal happiness . Isabel returns to Osmond because no other course would be fitting to her own conception of herself , just as Fleda Vetch , in The Spoils of Poynton , renounces Owen and Poynton ...
... respect , regardless of comfort or personal happiness . Isabel returns to Osmond because no other course would be fitting to her own conception of herself , just as Fleda Vetch , in The Spoils of Poynton , renounces Owen and Poynton ...
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