The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 136
... seen in a letter Miss Ferrier wrote to a friend with whom she proposed to collaborate : “ I do not recollect ever to have seen the sudden transition of a high- bred English beauty , who thinks she can sacrifice all to love , to an ...
... seen in a letter Miss Ferrier wrote to a friend with whom she proposed to collaborate : “ I do not recollect ever to have seen the sudden transition of a high- bred English beauty , who thinks she can sacrifice all to love , to an ...
Page 143
... seen it which fills up the interstices of the plot . Gerald Griffin's The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day , indeed an extended fame , since one of the most popular of Victorian melodramas , The Colleen Bawn , was based on it ...
... seen it which fills up the interstices of the plot . Gerald Griffin's The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day , indeed an extended fame , since one of the most popular of Victorian melodramas , The Colleen Bawn , was based on it ...
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... seen in his description of the pocket picking in Aaron's Rod : As he was going home , suddenly , just as he was passing the Bargello , he stopped . He stopped , and put his hand to his breast - pocket . His letter - case was gone . He ...
... seen in his description of the pocket picking in Aaron's Rod : As he was going home , suddenly , just as he was passing the Bargello , he stopped . He stopped , and put his hand to his breast - pocket . His letter - case was gone . He ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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