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Page xviii
... characters , for instance , but also the values inherent in the characters and their behavior . It is this latter which enables us to say that Jane Austen or Conrad is a greater novelist than such writers of the second rank as Trollope ...
... characters , for instance , but also the values inherent in the characters and their behavior . It is this latter which enables us to say that Jane Austen or Conrad is a greater novelist than such writers of the second rank as Trollope ...
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... characters the less they can be reduced to " bold outlines . " And the organization of a character is condi- tioned by everything in the novel . Hardy's characters , for instance , are simple enough ; there is nothing particularly ...
... characters the less they can be reduced to " bold outlines . " And the organization of a character is condi- tioned by everything in the novel . Hardy's characters , for instance , are simple enough ; there is nothing particularly ...
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... characters that we should to- day call psychopaths , and psychopaths are more common than we like to think . In fact , no hard and fast line can be drawn between them and the comic characters ; the psychopathic nature of Heep , for ...
... characters that we should to- day call psychopaths , and psychopaths are more common than we like to think . In fact , no hard and fast line can be drawn between them and the comic characters ; the psychopathic nature of Heep , for ...
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THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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