The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 194
... later novels as to great poems , for their effect is that of poetry , the poetry , as David Cecil has suggested , of the late Elizabethan drama , the plays of Webster and Ford and Tourneur . As Dickens grew older his mood became darker ...
... later novels as to great poems , for their effect is that of poetry , the poetry , as David Cecil has suggested , of the late Elizabethan drama , the plays of Webster and Ford and Tourneur . As Dickens grew older his mood became darker ...
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... later . Astrin- gency grew in him , and the early Barset books would be the better for more than they possess . But The Warden is merely the gateway to Barsetshire , and his full powers are not seen until later in the series . The note ...
... later . Astrin- gency grew in him , and the early Barset books would be the better for more than they possess . But The Warden is merely the gateway to Barsetshire , and his full powers are not seen until later in the series . The note ...
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... later novelists like Elizabeth Bowen . 3 Thomas Hardy's first novel , Desperate Remedies , was published in 1871. He was then thirty - one . His career as a novelist ended twenty - five years later , with Jude the Obscure . Thereafter ...
... later novelists like Elizabeth Bowen . 3 Thomas Hardy's first novel , Desperate Remedies , was published in 1871. He was then thirty - one . His career as a novelist ended twenty - five years later , with Jude the Obscure . Thereafter ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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