The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... fiction . Something akin to the realis- tic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle , exists in prose fiction , in a cruder and less ...
... fiction . Something akin to the realis- tic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle , exists in prose fiction , in a cruder and less ...
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... fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was her first work of fiction proper , and had she written nothing else , P. H. Newby's suggestive ...
... fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was her first work of fiction proper , and had she written nothing else , P. H. Newby's suggestive ...
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... fiction has always had in the eyes of teachers and parents , who , by stressing the adjective , have been able to soft - pedal the noun . Perhaps Hook should be given some credit for extend- ing the scene of fiction to take in the ...
... fiction has always had in the eyes of teachers and parents , who , by stressing the adjective , have been able to soft - pedal the noun . Perhaps Hook should be given some credit for extend- ing the scene of fiction to take in the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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