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INTRODUCTION a LITERARY HISTORIANS , horrified it seems by the newness of the form , have commonly thought it necessary to provide the novel with a respectable antiquity , much as the genealogist fits out the parvenu with an impeccable ...
INTRODUCTION a LITERARY HISTORIANS , horrified it seems by the newness of the form , have commonly thought it necessary to provide the novel with a respectable antiquity , much as the genealogist fits out the parvenu with an impeccable ...
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The novel is conceived on a much smaller scale than 31 anything in Dickens , but Dickens himself created no surer character than Mr. Polly . He is in many ways the hero of a fairy story , but a hero he is , and has his moment of ...
The novel is conceived on a much smaller scale than 31 anything in Dickens , but Dickens himself created no surer character than Mr. Polly . He is in many ways the hero of a fairy story , but a hero he is , and has his moment of ...
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But if Lawrence's characters are not always easy to explain, at least they always triumphantly are. Formally, his novels are probably as defective as any written, which is why he is at his best artistically in his short stories.
But if Lawrence's characters are not always easy to explain, at least they always triumphantly are. Formally, his novels are probably as defective as any written, which is why he is at his best artistically in his short stories.
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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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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