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In this world , men are awful and incalculable , when seen in the light of possible
husbands or potential seducers , or ludicrous , if , as often , they think themselves
possible husbands but are seen quite otherwise by the young women . To read ...
In this world , men are awful and incalculable , when seen in the light of possible
husbands or potential seducers , or ludicrous , if , as often , they think themselves
possible husbands but are seen quite otherwise by the young women . To read ...
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Their fiction , judged as fiction , is conventional ; the interest lies in the first - hand
observation and rendering of life as they had seen it which fills up the interstices
of the plot . Gerald Griffin ' s The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day ...
Their fiction , judged as fiction , is conventional ; the interest lies in the first - hand
observation and rendering of life as they had seen it which fills up the interstices
of the plot . Gerald Griffin ' s The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day ...
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George Eliot is seen at her greatest in Middlemarch . Not all her qualities are
manifest in it ; it lacks the charm of the first part of The Mill on the Floss and Silas
Marner , and the humor is much more severely controlled . But it expresses , as
the ...
George Eliot is seen at her greatest in Middlemarch . Not all her qualities are
manifest in it ; it lacks the charm of the first part of The Mill on the Floss and Silas
Marner , and the humor is much more severely controlled . But it expresses , as
the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
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, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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