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Page 124
... Jane Fairfax , are about to fall in love with each other , and on no real evidence at all decides Jane is in love with a married man , a suspicion she immediately communicates to Churchill . As soon as she realizes she is not in love ...
... Jane Fairfax , are about to fall in love with each other , and on no real evidence at all decides Jane is in love with a married man , a suspicion she immediately communicates to Churchill . As soon as she realizes she is not in love ...
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... Jane Eyre would be incoherent , for as a con- struction it is artless . Yet because of the unity of tone , the melodramatic incredibilities scarcely matter ; they are false to observed reality but not false to Charlotte Brontë's shaping ...
... Jane Eyre would be incoherent , for as a con- struction it is artless . Yet because of the unity of tone , the melodramatic incredibilities scarcely matter ; they are false to observed reality but not false to Charlotte Brontë's shaping ...
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... Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe ; their passionate intensity sweeps pity aside . In Villette she went back to the wholly subjective novel . Lucy Snowe tells her own story , and we are always in her mind . In events it is closer to reality as ...
... Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe ; their passionate intensity sweeps pity aside . In Villette she went back to the wholly subjective novel . Lucy Snowe tells her own story , and we are always in her mind . In events it is closer to reality as ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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