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Page 128
The point is that they are all rooted in the most palpable kinds of material reality,
the reality of life shaped by the forces of history, or the reality of work, of
traditional skills and professions. These realities give them reality. And what is
remarkable ...
The point is that they are all rooted in the most palpable kinds of material reality,
the reality of life shaped by the forces of history, or the reality of work, of
traditional skills and professions. These realities give them reality. And what is
remarkable ...
Page 226
Our first introduction t her in the novel is as to a ghost, and almost our first ii
traduction to Heathcliff is as to a haunted man. Emil Bronte's province is reality,
but spiritual reality; in Witt) ering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of tl
spirit, ...
Our first introduction t her in the novel is as to a ghost, and almost our first ii
traduction to Heathcliff is as to a haunted man. Emil Bronte's province is reality,
but spiritual reality; in Witt) ering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of tl
spirit, ...
Page 405
Its theme is reality and its nature, as is made plain in the first chapter, in which the
hero Rickie, then an undergraduate, is discussing with his friends the
metaphysical problem, Does a cow exist when there is no one there to see it?
Rickie is in ...
Its theme is reality and its nature, as is made plain in the first chapter, in which the
hero Rickie, then an undergraduate, is discussing with his friends the
metaphysical problem, Does a cow exist when there is no one there to see it?
Rickie is in ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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