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... situation . ' How he arrives at the situation he seems scarcely to care . Meredith's general theme is the eternal one of comedy , the clash between illusion and reality , and the central character's painful progress to knowledge of ...
... situation . ' How he arrives at the situation he seems scarcely to care . Meredith's general theme is the eternal one of comedy , the clash between illusion and reality , and the central character's painful progress to knowledge of ...
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... situation he has chosen to describe , ' Given the nature of man , then my situation , through the characters enacting it , can resolve itself only in this way ' . A novelist like Stevenson , for example , whose material is mainly such ...
... situation he has chosen to describe , ' Given the nature of man , then my situation , through the characters enacting it , can resolve itself only in this way ' . A novelist like Stevenson , for example , whose material is mainly such ...
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... situation taken from contemporary history . The complicated plot had to disappear . Instead , within the brilliantly described world of conventional Anglo - Indian relations , we have the attempts , fumbling yet moving , of English and ...
... situation taken from contemporary history . The complicated plot had to disappear . Instead , within the brilliantly described world of conventional Anglo - Indian relations , we have the attempts , fumbling yet moving , of English and ...
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