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Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a
myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the
sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of
innumerable atoms ...
Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a
myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the
sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of
innumerable atoms ...
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thing as belongs to a house, an' I've told her her duty often enough, though, God
knows, I've no breath to spare, an' that catchin' pain comes on dreadful by times.
Wi' them three gells in the house I'd need have twice the strength to keep 'em ...
thing as belongs to a house, an' I've told her her duty often enough, though, God
knows, I've no breath to spare, an' that catchin' pain comes on dreadful by times.
Wi' them three gells in the house I'd need have twice the strength to keep 'em ...
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The presence of Overton was probably essential to Butler's purpose, for he was
writing a novel with a thesis; one way and another, all Butler's conclusions about
life and right living come into the book; it cannot therefore be judged as we judge
...
The presence of Overton was probably essential to Butler's purpose, for he was
writing a novel with a thesis; one way and another, all Butler's conclusions about
life and right living come into the book; it cannot therefore be judged as we judge
...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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