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for herself in fashionable society, perverting her native Irish good humor and
simplicity into a comic parody of English aristocratic manners and behavior; a
figure of fun to the ladies who flock to her balls and routs; a source of endless
expense ...
for herself in fashionable society, perverting her native Irish good humor and
simplicity into a comic parody of English aristocratic manners and behavior; a
figure of fun to the ladies who flock to her balls and routs; a source of endless
expense ...
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Part of the trouble with Evan Harrington is that the figure dominating the book, the
"Great Mel," is dead before the action begins, and Evan himself is not much more
than a chopping block for Meredith's strokes of wit and generalizations on life ...
Part of the trouble with Evan Harrington is that the figure dominating the book, the
"Great Mel," is dead before the action begins, and Evan himself is not much more
than a chopping block for Meredith's strokes of wit and generalizations on life ...
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Reconciliation is possible, and it comes about through the figure of Mrs. Moore,
the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes,
after she leaves India to die on the voyage home, almost a local goddess. She is
...
Reconciliation is possible, and it comes about through the figure of Mrs. Moore,
the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes,
after she leaves India to die on the voyage home, almost a local goddess. She is
...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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