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Page 77
There are , for instance , Mr . Shandy , the theorist with theories on every subject
under the sun , and his wife : the relation between them is implicit in the following
passage : It was a consuming vexation to my father that my mother never asked ...
There are , for instance , Mr . Shandy , the theorist with theories on every subject
under the sun , and his wife : the relation between them is implicit in the following
passage : It was a consuming vexation to my father that my mother never asked ...
Page 111
But listen to her as she thinks aloud : " It will do very well , never mind , ” repeated
Petito , mut . tering to herself as she looked after the ladies whilst they ran
downstairs . “ I can ' t abide to dress any young lady who says never mind , and it
will ...
But listen to her as she thinks aloud : " It will do very well , never mind , ” repeated
Petito , mut . tering to herself as she looked after the ladies whilst they ran
downstairs . “ I can ' t abide to dress any young lady who says never mind , and it
will ...
Page 187
He was so affected by the experience that he never even spoke of it to his
children ; they discovered it for the first time from Forster ' s life of him . And the
feeling of abandonment was not due simply to the fact that he , a middleclass
child who ...
He was so affected by the experience that he never even spoke of it to his
children ; they discovered it for the first time from Forster ' s life of him . And the
feeling of abandonment was not due simply to the fact that he , a middleclass
child who ...
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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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