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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 is that ... the Marquis of Carabas , whom he
inveigles into a political intrigue against the government of the day , to which the
...
The theme is the incursion into politics of a young and brilliant adventurer just out
of his teens whose first principle is that ... the Marquis of Carabas , whom he
inveigles into a political intrigue against the government of the day , to which the
...
Page 173
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 Minister , is
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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 Minister , is
...
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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 novels of
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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 novels of
...
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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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