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... Gissing man ; he is much less interesting when abstracted from life . In the novels at least he has to struggle with society , and he appears in all the novels as fundamentally the same char- acter , whatever his class , calling , or ...
... Gissing man ; he is much less interesting when abstracted from life . In the novels at least he has to struggle with society , and he appears in all the novels as fundamentally the same char- acter , whatever his class , calling , or ...
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... Gissing's self - pity . New Grub Street strikes one as special pleading for a spe- cial case . Through the Gissing man we see the world as through a distorting lens , but it is a lens of extraordinary power . There is the one exception ...
... Gissing's self - pity . New Grub Street strikes one as special pleading for a spe- cial case . Through the Gissing man we see the world as through a distorting lens , but it is a lens of extraordinary power . There is the one exception ...
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... Gissing's illusion it was also part of Peake's , who is the real center of interest . Attracted to- wards the ... Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his ...
... Gissing's illusion it was also part of Peake's , who is the real center of interest . Attracted to- wards the ... Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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