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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
Scott , in fact , was a great writer of fiction who was never a good novelist . 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
...
Scott , in fact , was a great writer of fiction who was never a good novelist . 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
...
Page 296
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
when ...
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
when ...
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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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