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... successful as he in what he invented . What his descendants inherited they often used badly and un- suitably . Jane Austen alone put out her legacy to really profitable interest . Very largely , the English novelists ' conception of ...
... successful as he in what he invented . What his descendants inherited they often used badly and un- suitably . Jane Austen alone put out her legacy to really profitable interest . Very largely , the English novelists ' conception of ...
Page 324
... successful novel . 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 ...
... successful novel . 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 ...
Page 335
... successful , Between the Acts ( 1941 ) , she sets the action , which is played out in a country house in whose ... successful than others and to be successful , indeed , almost in inverse ratio to their ambition . It has become customary ...
... successful , Between the Acts ( 1941 ) , she sets the action , which is played out in a country house in whose ... successful than others and to be successful , indeed , almost in inverse ratio to their ambition . It has become customary ...
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