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... the final standard of imaginative writing . The most important work of prose fiction in English be- fore The Pilgrim's Progress was written more than a cen- tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama . This was THE BEGINNINGS 7.
... the final standard of imaginative writing . The most important work of prose fiction in English be- fore The Pilgrim's Progress was written more than a cen- tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama . This was THE BEGINNINGS 7.
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... writing of novels is scarcely conceivable . The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature lists one hundred and fifty prose tales written in English and published between 1500 and 1660 , the great majority of them later than 1580 ...
... writing of novels is scarcely conceivable . The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature lists one hundred and fifty prose tales written in English and published between 1500 and 1660 , the great majority of them later than 1580 ...
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... written in the dialogue or dramatic way . . . . Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height of a present distress ; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty ( the events then hidden in the womb ...
... written in the dialogue or dramatic way . . . . Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height of a present distress ; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty ( the events then hidden in the womb ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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