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... mean any novel in which the hero takes a journey whose course plunges him into all sorts , condi- tions , and ... means that Bunyan's allegory is deeply rooted in the actual . It is of this world in its most familiar aspects ; its ...
... mean any novel in which the hero takes a journey whose course plunges him into all sorts , condi- tions , and ... means that Bunyan's allegory is deeply rooted in the actual . It is of this world in its most familiar aspects ; its ...
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... mean notion of social be- havior . Rosamond is adamant in her idea of what is ow- ing to her . But the frustration of Lydgate's ambitions is not by any means due wholly to the spots of commonness of which his disastrous marriage is a ...
... mean notion of social be- havior . Rosamond is adamant in her idea of what is ow- ing to her . But the frustration of Lydgate's ambitions is not by any means due wholly to the spots of commonness of which his disastrous marriage is a ...
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... means that they are undone , though in the case of Thomasin , Hardy altered his original conclusion of the novel to provide her with a happy ending . Hardy's view of life , then , was cosmic . This means that his tragic novels exist ...
... means that they are undone , though in the case of Thomasin , Hardy altered his original conclusion of the novel to provide her with a happy ending . Hardy's view of life , then , was cosmic . This means that his tragic novels exist ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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