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... woman's self - esteem . It is a fantasy with obvious affinities with the Cinderella story : the man stoops down , as it were , from a great height . But it goes a step beyond the Cinderella story in sophistication . The woman triumphs ...
... woman's self - esteem . It is a fantasy with obvious affinities with the Cinderella story : the man stoops down , as it were , from a great height . But it goes a step beyond the Cinderella story in sophistication . The woman triumphs ...
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... Woman in White ( 1860 ) and The Moonstone ( 1868 ) , keep Collins's memory sweet . Both novelists were working at the opposite pole of manner and intention to Trollope , and this itself gives interest to his note on Collins in the ...
... Woman in White ( 1860 ) and The Moonstone ( 1868 ) , keep Collins's memory sweet . Both novelists were working at the opposite pole of manner and intention to Trollope , and this itself gives interest to his note on Collins in the ...
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... woman of decided mind . Count Fosco , of A Woman in White , has always been admired , and he is one of the great grotesques of our fic- tion . He cannot be said precisely to live ; it is impossible to imagine him outside the confines of ...
... woman of decided mind . Count Fosco , of A Woman in White , has always been admired , and he is one of the great grotesques of our fic- tion . He cannot be said precisely to live ; it is impossible to imagine him outside the confines of ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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