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Page 49
Elizabeth Jenkins, in her admirable study of the novelist, comments on this: "The
scene in Lady Booby's house . . . where Beau Didapper steals to Mrs. Slipslop's
bed in mistake for Fanny's, and Parson Adams, hearing a scream, rushes in the ...
Elizabeth Jenkins, in her admirable study of the novelist, comments on this: "The
scene in Lady Booby's house . . . where Beau Didapper steals to Mrs. Slipslop's
bed in mistake for Fanny's, and Parson Adams, hearing a scream, rushes in the ...
Page 82
Yet he had real powers of invention and could write a swift, effective satirical
scene and follow it instantly with another; if the chapters describing how a
clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her
husband and ...
Yet he had real powers of invention and could write a swift, effective satirical
scene and follow it instantly with another; if the chapters describing how a
clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her
husband and ...
Page 199
There are great scenes, the greatest the account of Waterloo, the Waterloo of the
civilian hangers-on of the army. There is brilliant comedy. And always there is the
utmost vividness, characters caught as it were in mid-gesture, and a wonderful ...
There are great scenes, the greatest the account of Waterloo, the Waterloo of the
civilian hangers-on of the army. There is brilliant comedy. And always there is the
utmost vividness, characters caught as it were in mid-gesture, and a wonderful ...
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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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