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Page 209
... successful works , Cran- ford ( 1853 ) and Wives and Daughters ( 1864-66 ) . Here , she is content to do what she can do well , and the results are charming . In Cranford the quiet humors and the equally quiet disasters of the lives of ...
... successful works , Cran- ford ( 1853 ) and Wives and Daughters ( 1864-66 ) . Here , she is content to do what she can do well , and the results are charming . In Cranford the quiet humors and the equally quiet disasters of the lives of ...
Page 307
... successful in standing for life itself , or of that area of life the novelist has concerned himself with . A good novel is untrue only in the sense that the events described in it have not actually happened . If the novel is successful ...
... successful in standing for life itself , or of that area of life the novelist has concerned himself with . A good novel is untrue only in the sense that the events described in it have not actually happened . If the novel is successful ...
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... successful than others and to be successful , indeed , almost in inverse ratio to their ambition . It has become customary to write of Virginia Woolf as though she were essentially a poet who happened to use the medium of prose . But ...
... successful than others and to be successful , indeed , almost in inverse ratio to their ambition . It has become customary to write of Virginia Woolf as though she were essentially a poet who happened to use the medium of prose . But ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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