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... whole . But among other things , Bleak House is also about Lady Ded- lock , who hides a love - starved heart under a mask of aris- tocratic boredom , and as Robert Liddell has said in A Treatise on the Novel : " If it rains in ...
... whole . But among other things , Bleak House is also about Lady Ded- lock , who hides a love - starved heart under a mask of aris- tocratic boredom , and as Robert Liddell has said in A Treatise on the Novel : " If it rains in ...
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... whole man ; but man is rarely balanced and few can be said to be whole . The criticism of lack of balance , of lack of whole- ness , is the impulse behind his first four novels , Where Angels Fear to Tread , The Longest Journey , A Room ...
... whole man ; but man is rarely balanced and few can be said to be whole . The criticism of lack of balance , of lack of whole- ness , is the impulse behind his first four novels , Where Angels Fear to Tread , The Longest Journey , A Room ...
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... whole flow of mental activity , to be made ? It is impossible , with Pilgrim- age , to speak of structure or form at all . There is selection , but it is largely the selection of censorship in the Freudian sense , which is very much a ...
... whole flow of mental activity , to be made ? It is impossible , with Pilgrim- age , to speak of structure or form at all . There is selection , but it is largely the selection of censorship in the Freudian sense , which is very much a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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