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At this point the unsatisfactoriness of the plot reveals itself. By his very nature
Booth is a doomed man; in reality not even an Amelia could have saved him. But
in the last pages, all is put right: it is discovered that the will by which Amelia had
...
At this point the unsatisfactoriness of the plot reveals itself. By his very nature
Booth is a doomed man; in reality not even an Amelia could have saved him. But
in the last pages, all is put right: it is discovered that the will by which Amelia had
...
Page 130
He was doing something profoundly new in fiction, but he was hamstrung all the
time as a novelist by using old methods. He took over the old complex plot of the
eighteenth-century novelists, with its young hero on whom the thread of action ...
He was doing something profoundly new in fiction, but he was hamstrung all the
time as a novelist by using old methods. He took over the old complex plot of the
eighteenth-century novelists, with its young hero on whom the thread of action ...
Page 193
Perhaps he was influenced by Mrs. Gaskell, as in later novels he was certainly
influenced by Wilkie Collins, who was the greatest master of plot of his time; the
indebtednesses are unimportant because the change had to come. The great ...
Perhaps he was influenced by Mrs. Gaskell, as in later novels he was certainly
influenced by Wilkie Collins, who was the greatest master of plot of his time; the
indebtednesses are unimportant because the change had to come. The great ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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