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Then I shall say , with a great deal of dignity , ' If your ladyship thinks so , my lady ,
I ' d better go . ' And I ' d desire no better than that she would take me at my word ,
for my Lady Dashfort ' s is a much better place , I ' m told , and she ' s dying to ...
Then I shall say , with a great deal of dignity , ' If your ladyship thinks so , my lady ,
I ' d better go . ' And I ' d desire no better than that she would take me at my word ,
for my Lady Dashfort ' s is a much better place , I ' m told , and she ' s dying to ...
Page 136
... that the great European novelists did not follow him in this , and one suspects ,
looking at the achievement of Balzac , Mérimée , and Tolstoi , that they
understood his real contribution to the growth of the novel better than did the
English .
... that the great European novelists did not follow him in this , and one suspects ,
looking at the achievement of Balzac , Mérimée , and Tolstoi , that they
understood his real contribution to the growth of the novel better than did the
English .
Page 311
We read him today as a modern novelist in a sense that Stevenson , Gissing ,
and Moore were not , and we do so because , for better or for worse , more than
anyone else he made what seems to be the specifically modern novel .
Describing ...
We read him today as a modern novelist in a sense that Stevenson , Gissing ,
and Moore were not , and we do so because , for better or for worse , more than
anyone else he made what seems to be the specifically modern novel .
Describing ...
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Contents
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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