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Page 75
He is saying in effect to the reader : You believe you think logically , that one
thought follows another in orderly ... cut short ? as at this rate I should just live
364 times faster than I should write - It must follow , an ' please your worships ,
that the ...
He is saying in effect to the reader : You believe you think logically , that one
thought follows another in orderly ... cut short ? as at this rate I should just live
364 times faster than I should write - It must follow , an ' please your worships ,
that the ...
Page 82
Yet he had real powers of invention and could write a swift , effective satirical
scene and follow it instantly with another ; if the chapters describing how a
clergyman ' s wife bribes a bishop ' s wife in order to get a vacant living for her
husband ...
Yet he had real powers of invention and could write a swift , effective satirical
scene and follow it instantly with another ; if the chapters describing how a
clergyman ' s wife bribes a bishop ' s wife in order to get a vacant living for her
husband ...
Page 318
But there was another influence as potent , Balzac ' s , and the two novels that
follow The Portrait , The Bostonians , and The Princess Casamassima , both of
which appeared in 1886 , follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying
behind ...
But there was another influence as potent , Balzac ' s , and the two novels that
follow The Portrait , The Bostonians , and The Princess Casamassima , both of
which appeared in 1886 , follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying
behind ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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