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Defoe stands to these in the relation of a prosaic Leonardo. Without benefit of a
university, he was a man of wide learning, speaking half a dozen languages and
reading seven. His interests and activities were many; he was in turn shopkeeper
...
Defoe stands to these in the relation of a prosaic Leonardo. Without benefit of a
university, he was a man of wide learning, speaking half a dozen languages and
reading seven. His interests and activities were many; he was in turn shopkeeper
...
Page 108
And she did more than this: she perceived the relation between the local
habitation and the people who dwell in it. She invented, in other words, the
regional novel, in which the very nature of the novelist's characters is conditioned
, receives its ...
And she did more than this: she perceived the relation between the local
habitation and the people who dwell in it. She invented, in other words, the
regional novel, in which the very nature of the novelist's characters is conditioned
, receives its ...
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without the sense of an audience in intimate relation with him he was less than
himself. His public readings have been deplored, but they indicate the intensity of
his craving for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his public. It was one of ...
without the sense of an audience in intimate relation with him he was less than
himself. His public readings have been deplored, but they indicate the intensity of
his craving for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his public. It was one of ...
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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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