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He very seldom swore at her ( perhaps not above once a week ) and never beat her : she had not the least occasion for jealousy , and was perfect mistress of her time ; for she was never interrupted by her husband , who was engaged all ...
He very seldom swore at her ( perhaps not above once a week ) and never beat her : she had not the least occasion for jealousy , and was perfect mistress of her time ; for she was never interrupted by her husband , who was engaged all ...
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technique with Virginia Woolf's , and perhaps the quotation of a passage from her essay on the modern novel will indicate , better than anything else , the nature of Sterne's mind and its perceptions . Examine for a moment an ordinary ...
technique with Virginia Woolf's , and perhaps the quotation of a passage from her essay on the modern novel will indicate , better than anything else , the nature of Sterne's mind and its perceptions . Examine for a moment an ordinary ...
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Within thirty years they had departed , and with them perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further Immortals ; at any rate , Meredith , for all his great reputation and his enormous influence at the end of his life ...
Within thirty years they had departed , and with them perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further Immortals ; at any rate , Meredith , for all his great reputation and his enormous influence at the end of his life ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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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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