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... Gissing's level , improbabilities become increasingly serious . The most ex- plicit statement of Hardy's view of the tragic situation of man , Jude suffers artistically from its explicitness . Nevertheless , Jude is a most powerful and ...
... Gissing's level , improbabilities become increasingly serious . The most ex- plicit statement of Hardy's view of the tragic situation of man , Jude suffers artistically from its explicitness . Nevertheless , Jude is a most powerful and ...
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... Gissing remains the novelist of the special case - his own . It is presented in an idealized form in what has always ... Gissing's does not contain even a Lucy in russet gown and apron blue . Ryecroft rep- resents a dream of such ...
... Gissing remains the novelist of the special case - his own . It is presented in an idealized form in what has always ... Gissing's does not contain even a Lucy in russet gown and apron blue . Ryecroft rep- resents a dream of such ...
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... Gissing's illusion it was also part of Peake's , who is the real center of interest . Attracted to- wards the ... Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his ...
... Gissing's illusion it was also part of Peake's , who is the real center of interest . Attracted to- wards the ... Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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