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Page 206
But I can never lose the taste of the construction . The author seems always to be
warning me to remember that something happened at exactly half - past two o'
clock on Tuesday morning ; or that a woman disappeared from the road just
fifteen ...
But I can never lose the taste of the construction . The author seems always to be
warning me to remember that something happened at exactly half - past two o'
clock on Tuesday morning ; or that a woman disappeared from the road just
fifteen ...
Page 207
Perhaps it scarcely affects Armadale ( 1866 ) , which is generally considered his
best book after The Woman in White and The Moonstone , for Armadale is an
exercise in pure melodrama based on the notion of doom . Collins presents us
with ...
Perhaps it scarcely affects Armadale ( 1866 ) , which is generally considered his
best book after The Woman in White and The Moonstone , for Armadale is an
exercise in pure melodrama based on the notion of doom . Collins presents us
with ...
Page 254
For the particular young woman he almost certainly went back to the memories of
his adored cousin , Minny Temple , who died at the age of twenty - four . The
figure of Minny Temple was a most potent symbol in James's life , the symbol of ...
For the particular young woman he almost certainly went back to the memories of
his adored cousin , Minny Temple , who died at the age of twenty - four . The
figure of Minny Temple was a most potent symbol in James's life , the symbol of ...
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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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