The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 136
... seen in a letter Miss Ferrier wrote to a friend with whom she proposed to collaborate : " I do not recollect ever to have seen the sudden transition of a high- bred English beauty , who thinks she can sacrifice all to love , to an ...
... seen in a letter Miss Ferrier wrote to a friend with whom she proposed to collaborate : " I do not recollect ever to have seen the sudden transition of a high- bred English beauty , who thinks she can sacrifice all to love , to an ...
Page 143
... seen it which fills up the interstices of the plot . Gerald Griffin's The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day , indeed an extended fame , since one of the most popular of Victorian melodramas , The Colleen Bawn , was based on it ...
... seen it which fills up the interstices of the plot . Gerald Griffin's The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day , indeed an extended fame , since one of the most popular of Victorian melodramas , The Colleen Bawn , was based on it ...
Page 273
... 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 ex- presses , as ...
... 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 ex- presses , as ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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