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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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But these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they would in any other novelist ; they are botches , but they do not ruin the work , because though large enough when measured in terms of plot they are small ...
But these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they would in any other novelist ; they are botches , but they do not ruin the work , because though large enough when measured in terms of plot they are small ...
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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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