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Page 255
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 - eight
when she ...
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 - eight
when she ...
Page 260
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 rendering
of ...
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 rendering
of ...
Page 380
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
Napoleon ...
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
Napoleon ...
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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingRemember when literary critics read books and wrote about them? No? Well, I do now. He got a few things wrong - what did these people ever see in H.G. Wells? In Meredith? That they should be put next ... Read full review
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| 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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