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Her theme is always a young girl's impressions of the social world, her mistakes
in society, her gradual discovery of its values, and her discovery of love, which,
after some misunderstandings due to her innocence, ends in marriage. Evelina is
...
Her theme is always a young girl's impressions of the social world, her mistakes
in society, her gradual discovery of its values, and her discovery of love, which,
after some misunderstandings due to her innocence, ends in marriage. Evelina is
...
Page 169
“Wherever there was a man, he saw a snob'; and snobbery, the jockeying for
social position and the pretence to a status rather higher than the person's true
one, he saw as the main driving force of man in society. This view of man has
satisfied ...
“Wherever there was a man, he saw a snob'; and snobbery, the jockeying for
social position and the pretence to a status rather higher than the person's true
one, he saw as the main driving force of man in society. This view of man has
satisfied ...
Page 222
... jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner
had done, by the independent value of his work. By gaining the support of the
philanthropic banker Bulstrode, who is building a new hospital, Lydgate seems to
be ...
... jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner
had done, by the independent value of his work. By gaining the support of the
philanthropic banker Bulstrode, who is building a new hospital, Lydgate seems to
be ...
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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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