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... wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Mo Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master - printer wrote Pamela . Even if we cannot define it , we know what to expect when w read a novel : We find there a close imitation of man ...
... wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Mo Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master - printer wrote Pamela . Even if we cannot define it , we know what to expect when w read a novel : We find there a close imitation of man ...
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... wrote his Lettres Persanes , and forty years later Gold- smith in England wrote The Citizen of The World ; both had the same intention , to show the West how it might appear to an intelligent man from the world outside the West . But at ...
... wrote his Lettres Persanes , and forty years later Gold- smith in England wrote The Citizen of The World ; both had the same intention , to show the West how it might appear to an intelligent man from the world outside the West . But at ...
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... wrote The Portrait of a Lady a whole range of possi- bilities of development lay before him . In The Great Tradition F. R. Leavis has examined the parallels between The Portrait of a Lady and Daniel Deronda and assessed the influence of ...
... wrote The Portrait of a Lady a whole range of possi- bilities of development lay before him . In The Great Tradition F. R. Leavis has examined the parallels between The Portrait of a Lady and Daniel Deronda and assessed the influence of ...
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