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This in itself is tribute enough to Deloney's force of imagination and expression . Today , the most widely read work of Elizabethan fiction is Thomas Nash's The Unfortunate Traveller , or The Life of Jack Wilton , published in 1594.
This in itself is tribute enough to Deloney's force of imagination and expression . Today , the most widely read work of Elizabethan fiction is Thomas Nash's The Unfortunate Traveller , or The Life of Jack Wilton , published in 1594.
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The taboo on the frank recognition and expression of sex had come into existence slowly and , as it were , almost unawares . ... but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family .
The taboo on the frank recognition and expression of sex had come into existence slowly and , as it were , almost unawares . ... but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family .
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The colloquial expression takes the place of the formal ; the abstract is translated into the particular . Originally , the last sentence of his account of Ralph Touchett's ill health had been : “ The truth was that he had simply ...
The colloquial expression takes the place of the formal ; the abstract is translated into the particular . Originally , the last sentence of his account of Ralph Touchett's ill health had been : “ The truth was that he had simply ...
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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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