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It was never, either aesthetically or morally, a perfect form and its faults and
failures can be quickly enumerated. But its greatmess and its practical usefulness
lay in its unremitting work of involving the reader himself in the moral life, inviting
him ...
It was never, either aesthetically or morally, a perfect form and its faults and
failures can be quickly enumerated. But its greatmess and its practical usefulness
lay in its unremitting work of involving the reader himself in the moral life, inviting
him ...
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When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as “Since I called
upon you that evening when you were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind
in tea,” we feel that the current of satire, of moral indignation, has been ...
When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as “Since I called
upon you that evening when you were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind
in tea,” we feel that the current of satire, of moral indignation, has been ...
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intellectual honesty to a reluctant agnosticism, an agnosticism that laid as
remorseless a stress on morals, on right behavior, as had the dissent of her youth
. She writes, in Silas Marner: “Favorable chance is the god of all men who follow
their ...
intellectual honesty to a reluctant agnosticism, an agnosticism that laid as
remorseless a stress on morals, on right behavior, as had the dissent of her youth
. She writes, in Silas Marner: “Favorable chance is the god of all men who follow
their ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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