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If true symbols, they can never be reduced to what their creator believes they
stand for. It is an index of Godwin's successful use of symbol that the reader today
, even though he knows the connection between the novel and Political Justice, ...
If true symbols, they can never be reduced to what their creator believes they
stand for. It is an index of Godwin's successful use of symbol that the reader today
, even though he knows the connection between the novel and Political Justice, ...
Page 324
Why more successful it is easy to see. His very subject of India, with its clashes of
race, religion, and colour, compelled Forster to interpret his values in terms of a
concrete situation taken from contemporary history. The complicated plot had to ...
Why more successful it is easy to see. His very subject of India, with its clashes of
race, religion, and colour, compelled Forster to interpret his values in terms of a
concrete situation taken from contemporary history. The complicated plot had to ...
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In her last novel, in some respects her most successful, Between the Acts (1941),
she sets the action, which is played out in a country house in whose grounds a
pageant is to be held, against the whole background of the history of life.
In her last novel, in some respects her most successful, Between the Acts (1941),
she sets the action, which is played out in a country house in whose grounds a
pageant is to be held, against the whole background of the history of life.
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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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