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... Trollope's interest in and approach to his story may well be considered political in the sense that he is delineating struggles for power and position . His theme is the world and the way of the world , and this is the more strongly ...
... Trollope's interest in and approach to his story may well be considered political in the sense that he is delineating struggles for power and position . His theme is the world and the way of the world , and this is the more strongly ...
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... Trollope does not condemn ; there is , in fact , nothing to condemn , for Trollope was al- ways conscious of what may be called the discontinuities of the moral life ; he knew , even if he did not know the words , all about ...
... Trollope does not condemn ; there is , in fact , nothing to condemn , for Trollope was al- ways conscious of what may be called the discontinuities of the moral life ; he knew , even if he did not know the words , all about ...
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... Trollope possessed , that fas- cinated him the more the older he grew : the recognition of the obsessional . This cuts right across any easy shallow moralism . We see the obsessive operating in He Knew He Was Right in the character of ...
... Trollope possessed , that fas- cinated him the more the older he grew : the recognition of the obsessional . This cuts right across any easy shallow moralism . We see the obsessive operating in He Knew He Was Right in the character of ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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