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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 ...
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 ...
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Emily Brontė's province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuth ering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of the spirit , and in the world of Wuthering Heights those we normally call the living and the dead exist side by ...
Emily Brontė's province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuth ering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of the spirit , and in the world of Wuthering Heights those we normally call the living and the dead exist side by ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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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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