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... intellectual notions of his age . For anything comparable in our time we would need to imagine a novelist intellectually powerful enough to sat- irize in one book the exponents of , say , Marxism , psycho- analysis , the psychology of ...
... intellectual notions of his age . For anything comparable in our time we would need to imagine a novelist intellectually powerful enough to sat- irize in one book the exponents of , say , Marxism , psycho- analysis , the psychology of ...
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... intellectual distinction , a generously ardent nature , and a strong capacity for feeling , Maggie has never been surpassed . We do not for one moment question the intellectual ability or the spiritual quality of this girl , her craving ...
... intellectual distinction , a generously ardent nature , and a strong capacity for feeling , Maggie has never been surpassed . We do not for one moment question the intellectual ability or the spiritual quality of this girl , her craving ...
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... intellectual dissimulation - and of his intellectual distinction we are never in the least doubt- Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ...
... intellectual dissimulation - and of his intellectual distinction we are never in the least doubt- Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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