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Page 108
... relation between the local habitation and the people who dwell in it . She invented , in other words , the regional novel , in which the very nature of the novelist's characters is conditioned , receives its bias and expression , from ...
... relation between the local habitation and the people who dwell in it . She invented , in other words , the regional novel , in which the very nature of the novelist's characters is conditioned , receives its bias and expression , from ...
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... relation to God and to his fellows , indeed , of Russian man in relation to the whole world , visible and invisible , in which he lived . Nineteenth - century Russian fiction , then , has a sweep and range of subject , an audacity of ...
... relation to God and to his fellows , indeed , of Russian man in relation to the whole world , visible and invisible , in which he lived . Nineteenth - century Russian fiction , then , has a sweep and range of subject , an audacity of ...
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... relation with him he was less than himself . His public readings have been deplored , but they indicate the intensity of his crav- ing for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his pub- lic . It was one of the conditions necessary ...
... relation with him he was less than himself . His public readings have been deplored , but they indicate the intensity of his crav- ing for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his pub- lic . It was one of the conditions necessary ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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