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An ' I ha ' called you a tyrant , an ' an oud bull - dog , and a hard , cruel master ; that's where it stands . But for th'childer . Measter , do yo ' think we can e'er get on together ? " . “ Well ! ” said Mr. Thornton , half laughing ...
An ' I ha ' called you a tyrant , an ' an oud bull - dog , and a hard , cruel master ; that's where it stands . But for th'childer . Measter , do yo ' think we can e'er get on together ? " . “ Well ! ” said Mr. Thornton , half laughing ...
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Clym is the first of Hardy's idealists , the first of what have been called his “ prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called “ the ache of modernism . " In a sense , he represents Hardy's own values : In ...
Clym is the first of Hardy's idealists , the first of what have been called his “ prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called “ the ache of modernism . " In a sense , he represents Hardy's own values : In ...
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It was an attempt to define , on a theoretical basis , what before had been called Realism . Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist ; he saw himself as a French classicist , and dismissed Naturalism as an ...
It was an attempt to define , on a theoretical basis , what before had been called Realism . Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist ; he saw himself as a French classicist , and dismissed Naturalism as an ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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