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Page 99
... gives the novel a real strength . Much less openly doctrinaire than Bage and Godwin , Mrs. Smith was all the same a radical ; without in the least distorting her fiction to propaganda ends , she was using it to embody her criticism of ...
... gives the novel a real strength . Much less openly doctrinaire than Bage and Godwin , Mrs. Smith was all the same a radical ; without in the least distorting her fiction to propaganda ends , she was using it to embody her criticism of ...
Page 177
... gives these passages so much of their effect , as it does the back- stage political scenes , is his style . That ... give us other outsiders a huge wink . He was the outsider who got inside . One other quality of Disraeli as a novelist ...
... gives these passages so much of their effect , as it does the back- stage political scenes , is his style . That ... give us other outsiders a huge wink . He was the outsider who got inside . One other quality of Disraeli as a novelist ...
Page 285
... gives The Egoist its permanently fascinating subtlety . Wit and poetry exist side by side , and each irradiates the other . It is this combination that gives Meredith his spe- cial place in the novel . In the history of the novel , how ...
... gives The Egoist its permanently fascinating subtlety . Wit and poetry exist side by side , and each irradiates the other . It is this combination that gives Meredith his spe- cial place in the novel . In the history of the novel , how ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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