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Page 156
Santayana, in his fine essay on Dickens in Soliloquies in England, has partly
answered the charge that Dickens deals in caricatures: When people say
Dickens exaggerates, it seems to me they can have no eyes and no ears. They
probably ...
Santayana, in his fine essay on Dickens in Soliloquies in England, has partly
answered the charge that Dickens deals in caricatures: When people say
Dickens exaggerates, it seems to me they can have no eyes and no ears. They
probably ...
Page 314
The Athelny family, which seems carefully planted where it is in the novel to make
a happy ending possible, and the values they stand for, seem to me devices out
of Samuel Butler, and their appearance flaws the novel as nothing else does.
The Athelny family, which seems carefully planted where it is in the novel to make
a happy ending possible, and the values they stand for, seem to me devices out
of Samuel Butler, and their appearance flaws the novel as nothing else does.
Page 330
So much of the enormous labour of proving the solidity, the likeness to life, of the
story is not merely labour thrown away but labour misplaced to the extent of
obscuring and blotting, out the light of the conception. The writer seems
constrained, ...
So much of the enormous labour of proving the solidity, the likeness to life, of the
story is not merely labour thrown away but labour misplaced to the extent of
obscuring and blotting, out the light of the conception. The writer seems
constrained, ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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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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