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for herself in fashionable society, perverting her native Irish good humor and
simplicity into a comic parody of English aristocratic manners and behavior; a
figure of fun to the ladies who flock to her balls and routs; a source of endless
expense ...
for herself in fashionable society, perverting her native Irish good humor and
simplicity into a comic parody of English aristocratic manners and behavior; a
figure of fun to the ladies who flock to her balls and routs; a source of endless
expense ...
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Casaubon is a terrifying figure of haunted futility. George Eliot's comprehension
of him and pity for him are such that he exists on the grand scale. He too—and
we are made almost against our will to feel this—has within him “a certain
spiritual ...
Casaubon is a terrifying figure of haunted futility. George Eliot's comprehension
of him and pity for him are such that he exists on the grand scale. He too—and
we are made almost against our will to feel this—has within him “a certain
spiritual ...
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Reconciliation is possible , and it comes about through the figure of Mrs. Moore ,
the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes ,
after she leaves India to die on the voyage home , almost a local goddess .
Reconciliation is possible , and it comes about through the figure of Mrs. Moore ,
the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes ,
after she leaves India to die on the voyage home , almost a local goddess .
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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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