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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 reality . And what is ...
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 ...
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Emily Brontė ' s province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuthering 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 side and are
in ...
Emily Brontė ' s province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuthering 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 side and are
in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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