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For the James family , then , evil was not an abstract quality but something known
, painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry
James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his most
popular ...
For the James family , then , evil was not an abstract quality but something known
, painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry
James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his most
popular ...
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All the same , The Princess Casamassima is a great novel , and one further
quality of it must be noted , a characteristic of James's especially evident here
because of the range of social scene he was committed to . This quality is the
charity of ...
All the same , The Princess Casamassima is a great novel , and one further
quality of it must be noted , a characteristic of James's especially evident here
because of the range of social scene he was committed to . This quality is the
charity of ...
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Isabel Clarendon , 345 It Is Never Too Late To Mend , 248 72 Henrietta Temple ,
172 Henry Esmond , 205 , 207-208 Henry James : The Major Phase , 332-333
Henryson , Robert , 4 Hermsprong , 105-106 Herrick , Robert , 73 Hewitt ,
Douglas ...
Isabel Clarendon , 345 It Is Never Too Late To Mend , 248 72 Henrietta Temple ,
172 Henry Esmond , 205 , 207-208 Henry James : The Major Phase , 332-333
Henryson , Robert , 4 Hermsprong , 105-106 Herrick , Robert , 73 Hewitt ,
Douglas ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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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, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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