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... true to say that any work of fiction written before about 1670 in England is in some sense an ancestor of the novel . But the novel itself is something new . True , it has never been found easy to define , but this does not prevent us ...
... true to say that any work of fiction written before about 1670 in England is in some sense an ancestor of the novel . But the novel itself is something new . True , it has never been found easy to define , but this does not prevent us ...
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... true theme of the novel is the class struggle and its solution in terms of the policy of Young England . The subtitle , The Two Nations , explains the book . It was the first novel , for Mrs. Gaskell's Mary Barton did not appear until ...
... true theme of the novel is the class struggle and its solution in terms of the policy of Young England . The subtitle , The Two Nations , explains the book . It was the first novel , for Mrs. Gaskell's Mary Barton did not appear until ...
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... true one he saw as the main driving force of man in society . This view of man has satisfied none of his critics ; the amassing of " petty details , " as Bagehot tartly observed , " to prove that tenth - rate people were ever striving ...
... true one he saw as the main driving force of man in society . This view of man has satisfied none of his critics ; the amassing of " petty details , " as Bagehot tartly observed , " to prove that tenth - rate people were ever striving ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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