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... turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel , political writing , a treatise on midwifery , translation — he translated Cervantes , Le Sage , and Voltaire — and a history of England in many volumes poured from his pen . His ...
... turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel , political writing , a treatise on midwifery , translation — he translated Cervantes , Le Sage , and Voltaire — and a history of England in many volumes poured from his pen . His ...
Page 134
... turning away from the world in disgust , turned towards it in disgust and fought it with its own weapons . In them realism as an aesthetic creed was born . In Russia things were yet more different . There , the novel was seen as a ...
... turning away from the world in disgust , turned towards it in disgust and fought it with its own weapons . In them realism as an aesthetic creed was born . In Russia things were yet more different . There , the novel was seen as a ...
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... turned to the novel primarily because it was the dominant literary form of the time ; writing novels was a way of earning a living . It is often said that he had little interest in the novel as an art - form , but the statement needs ...
... turned to the novel primarily because it was the dominant literary form of the time ; writing novels was a way of earning a living . It is often said that he had little interest in the novel as an art - form , but the statement needs ...
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