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... kind of fiction , a kind that , often in an impure state , more or less dominated the writing of the novel throughout Europe and America from the mid - eighties to about 1914 . The word was first applied to literature by the French ...
... kind of fiction , a kind that , often in an impure state , more or less dominated the writing of the novel throughout Europe and America from the mid - eighties to about 1914 . The word was first applied to literature by the French ...
Page 381
... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breed- ing places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Pot- teries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breed- ing places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Pot- teries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
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... kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a limited universality , true for a certain kind of community at a certain point in time , a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but in any industrial ...
... kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a limited universality , true for a certain kind of community at a certain point in time , a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but in any industrial ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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