The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 281
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
...
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
...
Page 332
And we are at the center of Kate ' s consciousness ; the figure of Mrs . Lowder
affects us as she does Kate . Mrs . Lowder is comic , formidable , implacable ; but
she is more , for Kate ' s is a myth - making mind , and before it has finished with ...
And we are at the center of Kate ' s consciousness ; the figure of Mrs . Lowder
affects us as she does Kate . Mrs . Lowder is comic , formidable , implacable ; but
she is more , for Kate ' s is a myth - making mind , and before it has finished with ...
Page 408
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 .
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 .
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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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