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... kind . If there was no American Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot or Trollope , there was equally no English Hawthorne or Melville . The divergence is radical , and light is thrown upon it by F. R. Leavis's note on Wuthering Heights in ...
... kind . If there was no American Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot or Trollope , there was equally no English Hawthorne or Melville . The divergence is radical , and light is thrown upon it by F. R. Leavis's note on Wuthering Heights in ...
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... kind of criticism one brings to novels . Joyce addressed it , as he said himself , to ' that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia ' : in our time , the only reader likely to have the time and resources to give it the attention ...
... kind of criticism one brings to novels . Joyce addressed it , as he said himself , to ' that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia ' : in our time , the only reader likely to have the time and resources to give it the attention ...
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... kind of work . The officers of the Archimedes had been trained in sail . ' Why ' , asks Hughes , ' waste the man's time in learning a useless and outmoded technique ? ' The answer is a matter of Virtue , really . For an inclination ...
... kind of work . The officers of the Archimedes had been trained in sail . ' Why ' , asks Hughes , ' waste the man's time in learning a useless and outmoded technique ? ' The answer is a matter of Virtue , really . For an inclination ...
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