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If any single novel may be taken as the key to Hardy ' s mind and art it is probably
The Return of the Native , his sixth book , published in 1878 . A tragic love story ,
like almost all his fiction , it is extremely simple in plot . Clym Yeobright , who ...
If any single novel may be taken as the key to Hardy ' s mind and art it is probably
The Return of the Native , his sixth book , published in 1878 . A tragic love story ,
like almost all his fiction , it is extremely simple in plot . Clym Yeobright , who ...
Page 302
These great poetic and heroic scenes are exactly what compose the design that
lies behind Hardy ' s other novels and gives them their sense of timelessness .
One can ' t say that design , as opposed to plot , is absent from Jude , but it is
much ...
These great poetic and heroic scenes are exactly what compose the design that
lies behind Hardy ' s other novels and gives them their sense of timelessness .
One can ' t say that design , as opposed to plot , is absent from Jude , but it is
much ...
Page 382
But he is regional in a different way from that of Hardy . Hardy was of Wessex and
remained of Wessex , as Bennett was never of the Five Towns . For Hardy ,
Wessex was a microcosm of the universe , and we accept it as such . But for
Bennett ...
But he is regional in a different way from that of Hardy . Hardy was of Wessex and
remained of Wessex , as Bennett was never of the Five Towns . For Hardy ,
Wessex was a microcosm of the universe , and we accept it as such . But for
Bennett ...
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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, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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