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But it is not by accident that this seriousness of intent came into our fiction consciously with George Eliot and Meredith . In education and interests both were out of the common run of English novelists . George Eliot was thirty ...
But it is not by accident that this seriousness of intent came into our fiction consciously with George Eliot and Meredith . In education and interests both were out of the common run of English novelists . George Eliot was thirty ...
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Doubtless George Eliot was using the memories of her childhood , but it seems to me as certain as such things can be that she is remembering her childhood through Scott . It has been debated endlessly which is the better in the ...
Doubtless George Eliot was using the memories of her childhood , but it seems to me as certain as such things can be that she is remembering her childhood through Scott . It has been debated endlessly which is the better in the ...
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The satire on capitalism , so long as it is embodied in the figure of George's Uncle Ponderevo , is effective , though not exactly , perhaps , as Wells intended . For Uncle Ponderevo steals the book - Uncle Ponderevo the pinchbeck ...
The satire on capitalism , so long as it is embodied in the figure of George's Uncle Ponderevo , is effective , though not exactly , perhaps , as Wells intended . For Uncle Ponderevo steals the book - Uncle Ponderevo the pinchbeck ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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