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Page 171
... politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out of his teens whose first prin- ciple is that everything is ... political brilliance , form the best part of the book . The new party is defeated by the treachery of a woman , the ...
... politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out of his teens whose first prin- ciple is that everything is ... political brilliance , form the best part of the book . The new party is defeated by the treachery of a woman , the ...
Page 173
... political theory . Wells , too , es- sayed the political novel in The New Machiavelli , but the day - to - day works of politics , politics as an end in itself , was exactly what disgusted him . Disraeli's novels , however , spring out of ...
... political theory . Wells , too , es- sayed the political novel in The New Machiavelli , but the day - to - day works of politics , politics as an end in itself , was exactly what disgusted him . Disraeli's novels , however , spring out of ...
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... political only inasmuch as his main characters are men and women actively engaged in politics . The categories , never watertight , overlap , but the novels of the second half of his career develop certain tendencies evident in the last ...
... political only inasmuch as his main characters are men and women actively engaged in politics . The categories , never watertight , overlap , but the novels of the second half of his career develop certain tendencies evident in the last ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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