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For my own part , when I look back , it seems that the main concern of my life since I was a schoolboy has been reading novels , discussing novels with friends , writing about novels , and trying to write novels myself , and all these ...
For my own part , when I look back , it seems that the main concern of my life since I was a schoolboy has been reading novels , discussing novels with friends , writing about novels , and trying to write novels myself , and all these ...
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When one looks at his fiction as a whole , however , it seems much more likely than not that Meredith's present eclipse will prove only temporary . The reasons for the eclipse are obvious enough . His philosophy has worn badly .
When one looks at his fiction as a whole , however , it seems much more likely than not that Meredith's present eclipse will prove only temporary . The reasons for the eclipse are obvious enough . His philosophy has worn badly .
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Captain Kemp , Mr. Cripps , Mrs. Grimes , are either natural Dickens characters or characters conceived by a novelist who is so steeped in Dickens that automatically he turns his creations into Dickens characters : they look like ...
Captain Kemp , Mr. Cripps , Mrs. Grimes , are either natural Dickens characters or characters conceived by a novelist who is so steeped in Dickens that automatically he turns his creations into Dickens characters : they look like ...
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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingRemember when literary critics read books and wrote about them? No? Well, I do now. He got a few things wrong - what did these people ever see in H.G. Wells? In Meredith? That they should be put next ... Read full review
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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