The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 90
... scarcely a novel , just as its setting bears no re- semblance to Abyssinia then or now . Rather it is a philo- sophical fable on the vanity of human happiness . The prince who leaves his birthplace in order to see the world and finds ...
... scarcely a novel , just as its setting bears no re- semblance to Abyssinia then or now . Rather it is a philo- sophical fable on the vanity of human happiness . The prince who leaves his birthplace in order to see the world and finds ...
Page 197
... scarcely be questioned when one remembers the characters of the novel , those sharp , scathing sketches of the money - con- scious , the Veneerings , Podsnap , Fledgeby , the Lammles . Any account of Dickens is inadequate . He is the ...
... scarcely be questioned when one remembers the characters of the novel , those sharp , scathing sketches of the money - con- scious , the Veneerings , Podsnap , Fledgeby , the Lammles . Any account of Dickens is inadequate . He is the ...
Page 288
... scarcely fail to see him as a soul naturally Christian . This involves no contradiction ; as David Cecil has written in Hardy the Novelist : " Christian teachers have always said that there was no alternative to Christianity but ...
... scarcely fail to see him as a soul naturally Christian . This involves no contradiction ; as David Cecil has written in Hardy the Novelist : " Christian teachers have always said that there was no alternative to Christianity but ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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