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... tion took . But it was not a fiction of a kind similar to that which we find later in the novel . The Elizabethans were interested in quite other things than those that have fas- cinated the novelists . From its very nature the novel de ...
... tion took . But it was not a fiction of a kind similar to that which we find later in the novel . The Elizabethans were interested in quite other things than those that have fas- cinated the novelists . From its very nature the novel de ...
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... tion , one that had a sulphurous big swollen large face , like a Saracen , eyes like two Kentish oysters , a mouth that opened as wide every time he spake , as one of those old knit trap doors , a beard as though it had been made of a ...
... tion , one that had a sulphurous big swollen large face , like a Saracen , eyes like two Kentish oysters , a mouth that opened as wide every time he spake , as one of those old knit trap doors , a beard as though it had been made of a ...
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... tion that we must make when reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves that we are overhearing half a dozen people talking to themselves in interior monologue at key - moments in their lives . Once it is accepted it breaks down only when ...
... tion that we must make when reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves that we are overhearing half a dozen people talking to themselves in interior monologue at key - moments in their lives . Once it is accepted it breaks down only when ...
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