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The theme is the incursion into politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out of his teens whose first principle ... whom he inveigles into a political intrigue against the government of the day , to which the marquis belongs .
The theme is the incursion into politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out of his teens whose first principle ... whom he inveigles into a political intrigue against the government of the day , to which the marquis belongs .
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They are political novels , almost the only true political novels in the language . Other novelists have attempted political novels , among them Trollope . But what Trollope concentrates on , in books like Phineas Finn and The Prime ...
They are political novels , almost the only true political novels in the language . Other novelists have attempted political novels , among them Trollope . But what Trollope concentrates on , in books like Phineas Finn and The Prime ...
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you could call him a religious novelist in Barchester Towers ; in other words , he is political only inasmuch as his main characters are men and women actively engaged in politics . The categories , never watertight , overlap , but the ...
you could call him a religious novelist in Barchester Towers ; in other words , he is political only inasmuch as his main characters are men and women actively engaged in politics . The categories , never watertight , overlap , but the ...
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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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