The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 63
... turned into animals or insects , they are deprived of their humanity . They are things to be kicked about , the ... turning over the pages of Smollett today , the modern reader may well decide , especially if he comes to him after ...
... turned into animals or insects , they are deprived of their humanity . They are things to be kicked about , the ... turning over the pages of Smollett today , the modern reader may well decide , especially if he comes to him after ...
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... turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel , political writing , a treatise on mid- wifery , translation - he translated Cervantes , Le Sage , and Voltaire - and a history of England in many volumes poured from his pen ...
... turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel , political writing , a treatise on mid- wifery , translation - he translated Cervantes , Le Sage , and Voltaire - and a history of England in many volumes poured from his pen ...
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... turning away from the world in disgust , turned towards it in disgust and fought it with its own weapons . In them realism as an aesthetic creed was born . In Russia things were yet more different . There , the novel was seen as a ...
... turning away from the world in disgust , turned towards it in disgust and fought it with its own weapons . In them realism as an aesthetic creed was born . In Russia things were yet more different . There , the novel was seen as a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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