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Page 200
“This,” he is saying, “is life as I have known it”; and he comments on the action
and characters as he goes along, makes a generalization, and illustrates it with a
brilliant scene, a passage of dialogue, which always takes the action a little
further ...
“This,” he is saying, “is life as I have known it”; and he comments on the action
and characters as he goes along, makes a generalization, and illustrates it with a
brilliant scene, a passage of dialogue, which always takes the action a little
further ...
Page 228
Nelly has been the closer observer of the action, of Heathcliff's arrival, his
brutalization by Hindley Earnshaw, his revenge on him and on Edgar Linton, who
marties Catherine Earnshaw, and his deliberate attempts to bring down and
degrade ...
Nelly has been the closer observer of the action, of Heathcliff's arrival, his
brutalization by Hindley Earnshaw, his revenge on him and on Edgar Linton, who
marties Catherine Earnshaw, and his deliberate attempts to bring down and
degrade ...
Page 325
The entire action is presented through Maisie, through her developing
consciousness and understanding. F. R. Leavis, who has written so well on this
novel, has said that it was in Dickens that James “found the tip that taught him
how he might ...
The entire action is presented through Maisie, through her developing
consciousness and understanding. F. R. Leavis, who has written so well on this
novel, has said that it was in Dickens that James “found the tip that taught him
how he might ...
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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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