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Page 99
Mrs . Smith was scarcely a satirist , but her work and the characters in it spring
from a considered point of view . There is implicit in The Old Manor House a body
of ideas which gives the novel a real strength . Much less openly doctrinaire than
...
Mrs . Smith was scarcely a satirist , but her work and the characters in it spring
from a considered point of view . There is implicit in The Old Manor House a body
of ideas which gives the novel a real strength . Much less openly doctrinaire than
...
Page 275
When Flaubert , however , wrote to Louise Colet of his ambition “ to give verse -
rhythm to prose ” and to write about ordinary life as epics are written , he meant
exactly what he said . His concern was with words ; his aim was to give the prose
...
When Flaubert , however , wrote to Louise Colet of his ambition “ to give verse -
rhythm to prose ” and to write about ordinary life as epics are written , he meant
exactly what he said . His concern was with words ; his aim was to give the prose
...
Page 430
Among other things , it gives to Ulysses beyond any other novel the quality
Flaubert sought when he wrote of his desire " to give verse - rhythm to prose , yet
to leave it prose and very much prose , and to write about ordinary life as
histories and ...
Among other things , it gives to Ulysses beyond any other novel the quality
Flaubert sought when he wrote of his desire " to give verse - rhythm to prose , yet
to leave it prose and very much prose , and to write about ordinary life as
histories and ...
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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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