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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 activities ...
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 activities ...
Page 275
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 . Its essence
...
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 . Its essence
...
Page 276
We look for the rendering of social life that we find in Thackeray , Trollope ,
George Eliot , Henry James , and Gissing , to mention his immediate
contemporaries , and it is not there , even when we suspect that it is precisely
what he is intending ...
We look for the rendering of social life that we find in Thackeray , Trollope ,
George Eliot , Henry James , and Gissing , to mention his immediate
contemporaries , and it is not there , even when we suspect that it is precisely
what he is intending ...
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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
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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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