The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... story by Jack Wilton himself , the page of the Earl of Surrey , whom he accompanies on his travels through Ger- many and Italy . Plot scarcely exists ; the story is merely a string of incidents and intrigues of which Wilton is the hero ...
... story by Jack Wilton himself , the page of the Earl of Surrey , whom he accompanies on his travels through Ger- many and Italy . Plot scarcely exists ; the story is merely a string of incidents and intrigues of which Wilton is the hero ...
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... story which crushes the son of the usurper Manfred . When we know its origin it is easy to see how The Castle of Otranto was constructed . It is , as it were , a fabrication in daylight , and it creaks as artificial dreams commonly do ...
... story which crushes the son of the usurper Manfred . When we know its origin it is easy to see how The Castle of Otranto was constructed . It is , as it were , a fabrication in daylight , and it creaks as artificial dreams commonly do ...
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... story The Beach at Falesá is not that in it he brought into our fiction an exotic scene of a kind we now associate with Conrad and Maugham but that he was able to tell his story of the Pacific through a vulgar , lower - class Englishman ...
... story The Beach at Falesá is not that in it he brought into our fiction an exotic scene of a kind we now associate with Conrad and Maugham but that he was able to tell his story of the Pacific through a vulgar , lower - class Englishman ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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