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Page 157
Scarcely ever are they ordinary; the very notion of the ordinary is foreign to the
child, to whom everyone encountered is unique. When people have very
powerfully impressed us in childhood they remain for ever so fixed in the memory
, with the ...
Scarcely ever are they ordinary; the very notion of the ordinary is foreign to the
child, to whom everyone encountered is unique. When people have very
powerfully impressed us in childhood they remain for ever so fixed in the memory
, with the ...
Page 166
This can scarcely be questioned when one remembers the characters of the
novel, those sharp, scathing sketches of the money-conscious, the Veneerings,
Podsmap, Fledgeby, the Lammles. Any account of Dickens is inadequate. He is
the ...
This can scarcely be questioned when one remembers the characters of the
novel, those sharp, scathing sketches of the money-conscious, the Veneerings,
Podsmap, Fledgeby, the Lammles. Any account of Dickens is inadequate. He is
the ...
Page 311
... never comes alive; it is scarcely possible that she should, presented as she is
through the minds of the Forsytes, since they are, by definition, characters which
do not possess the kind of mind through which beauty can be vividly realized.
... never comes alive; it is scarcely possible that she should, presented as she is
through the minds of the Forsytes, since they are, by definition, characters which
do not possess the kind of mind through which beauty can be vividly realized.
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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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