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Plot scarcely exists ; the story is merely a string of incidents and intrigues of which Wilton is the hero , and the incidents described are pure sensationalism , an “ exposure " of the wickedness of Renaissance Italy as the Elizabethan ...
Plot scarcely exists ; the story is merely a string of incidents and intrigues of which Wilton is the hero , and the incidents described are pure sensationalism , an “ exposure " of the wickedness of Renaissance Italy as the Elizabethan ...
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One thing , however , is clear : the woman so described could not possibly be a fit wife for the single - minded idealist who " had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of a sort which brings wisdom rather ...
One thing , however , is clear : the woman so described could not possibly be a fit wife for the single - minded idealist who " had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of a sort which brings wisdom rather ...
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... which is a brilliant fabrication, as may be seen when the figure of the god Quetzalcoatl is compared with the African carving described in Women in Love of "a woman sitting naked in a strange posture, and looking tortured, ...
... which is a brilliant fabrication, as may be seen when the figure of the god Quetzalcoatl is compared with the African carving described in Women in Love of "a woman sitting naked in a strange posture, and looking tortured, ...
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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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