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... Fiction , both by Robert Liddell . A few collections of essays on novelists or various aspects of fiction have been especially valuable because of the atti- tudes towards fiction that subsume them . The Common Reader , by Virginia Woolf ...
... Fiction , both by Robert Liddell . A few collections of essays on novelists or various aspects of fiction have been especially valuable because of the atti- tudes towards fiction that subsume them . The Common Reader , by Virginia Woolf ...
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... fiction . Something akin to the realis- tic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle , exists in prose fiction , in a cruder and less ...
... fiction . Something akin to the realis- tic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle , exists in prose fiction , in a cruder and less ...
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... fiction . If Stevenson had died five years earlier than he did , one would have said that his contribution to the ... fiction , fiction whose end is , unaffectedly , enter- tainment . One wouldn't say Stevenson made Anthony Hope possible ...
... fiction . If Stevenson had died five years earlier than he did , one would have said that his contribution to the ... fiction , fiction whose end is , unaffectedly , enter- tainment . One wouldn't say Stevenson made Anthony Hope possible ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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