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... the final standard of imaginative writing . The most important work of prose fiction in English be- fore The Pilgrim's Progress was written more than a cen- tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama . This was THE BEGINNINGS 7.
... the final standard of imaginative writing . The most important work of prose fiction in English be- fore The Pilgrim's Progress was written more than a cen- tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama . This was THE BEGINNINGS 7.
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... written in the dialogue or dramatic way . . . . Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height of a present distress ; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty ( the events then hidden in the womb ...
... written in the dialogue or dramatic way . . . . Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height of a present distress ; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty ( the events then hidden in the womb ...
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... written ; from What Maisie Knew onwards his fiction is all his own ; the change is akin to D. H. Lawrence's when , having written Sons and Lovers , in form the typical Edwardian autobiographical novel , he moved on to write The Rainbow ...
... written ; from What Maisie Knew onwards his fiction is all his own ; the change is akin to D. H. Lawrence's when , having written Sons and Lovers , in form the typical Edwardian autobiographical novel , he moved on to write The Rainbow ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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