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Yet the effect of the Elizabethan drama, and of Shakespeare above all, on the
novel in England can scarcely be overestimated. It was immeasurably greater
than that of the fiction of the period. To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels
is ...
Yet the effect of the Elizabethan drama, and of Shakespeare above all, on the
novel in England can scarcely be overestimated. It was immeasurably greater
than that of the fiction of the period. To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels
is ...
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novels are the Young England trilogy Coningsby, Sybil, and Tancred. They are
political novels, almost the only true political novels in the language. Other
novelists have attempted political novels, among them Trollope. But what
Trollope ...
novels are the Young England trilogy Coningsby, Sybil, and Tancred. They are
political novels, almost the only true political novels in the language. Other
novelists have attempted political novels, among them Trollope. But what
Trollope ...
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of England to transfer the seat of her empire from London to Delhi. As presented,
it is fantastic, yet twenty years after writing Tancred, Disraeli did in his own way
bring the Emir's plan to fulfillment; he did make Victoria Empress of India.
of England to transfer the seat of her empire from London to Delhi. As presented,
it is fantastic, yet twenty years after writing Tancred, Disraeli did in his own way
bring the Emir's plan to fulfillment; he did make Victoria Empress of India.
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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