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Page xvii
We know , too , what the novelist sets out to do when he writes a novel . Like any
other artist the novelist is a maker . ... Novelists have given many reasons for
writing novels : Richardson believed he did so to inculcate right conduct ,
Fielding to ...
We know , too , what the novelist sets out to do when he writes a novel . Like any
other artist the novelist is a maker . ... Novelists have given many reasons for
writing novels : Richardson believed he did so to inculcate right conduct ,
Fielding to ...
Page xx
Every novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own personal , idiosyncratic
vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is ,
so to speak , populated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a
novelist ...
Every novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own personal , idiosyncratic
vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is ,
so to speak , populated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a
novelist ...
Page 394
Writing novels was only one of the literary activities of Ford Madox Ford ( 1873 -
1939 ) — he changed his surname from Hueffer to Ford in 1919 . His career as a
novelist falls into two parts , divided by the war of 1914 - 18 . At the beginning of ...
Writing novels was only one of the literary activities of Ford Madox Ford ( 1873 -
1939 ) — he changed his surname from Hueffer to Ford in 1919 . His career as a
novelist falls into two parts , divided by the war of 1914 - 18 . At the beginning of ...
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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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