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Page 91
... submission, that is to say, without ulterior motive. Is it a novel? The question
scarcely matters, except to remind us that though the novel has its roots in the
reality round us it regularly aspires to the condition of fantasy, which is what
Vathek is.
... submission, that is to say, without ulterior motive. Is it a novel? The question
scarcely matters, except to remind us that though the novel has its roots in the
reality round us it regularly aspires to the condition of fantasy, which is what
Vathek is.
Page 197
This can scarcely be questioned when one remembers the characters of the
novel, those sharp, scathing sketches of the money-conscious, the Veneerings,
Podsnap, Fledgeby, the Lammles. Any account of Dickens is inadequate. He is
the ...
This can scarcely be questioned when one remembers the characters of the
novel, those sharp, scathing sketches of the money-conscious, the Veneerings,
Podsnap, Fledgeby, the Lammles. Any account of Dickens is inadequate. He is
the ...
Page 433
Lawrence's spokesman, the narrator, Cyril, is a young man of middle-class family,
and the father is scarcely present at all; he dies halfway through the book, a bad
lot who has deserted his wife and children. Even so, it was not so easy for ...
Lawrence's spokesman, the narrator, Cyril, is a young man of middle-class family,
and the father is scarcely present at all; he dies halfway through the book, a bad
lot who has deserted his wife and children. Even so, it was not so easy for ...
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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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