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Her theme is always a young girl's impressions of the social world, her mistakes
in society, her gradual discovery of its values, and her discovery of love, which,
after some misunderstandings due to her innocence, ends in marriage. Evelina is
...
Her theme is always a young girl's impressions of the social world, her mistakes
in society, her gradual discovery of its values, and her discovery of love, which,
after some misunderstandings due to her innocence, ends in marriage. Evelina is
...
Page 181
he was only giving wider publicity in "inimitable" form to a number of social facts
and social abuses which had already been recognized if not explored before him
. He shared a great deal of common experience with his public, so that it could ...
he was only giving wider publicity in "inimitable" form to a number of social facts
and social abuses which had already been recognized if not explored before him
. He shared a great deal of common experience with his public, so that it could ...
Page 201
"Wherever there was a man, he saw a snob"; and snobbery, the jockeying for
social position and the pretense to a status rather higher than the person's true
one he saw as the main driving force of man in society. This view of man has
satisfied ...
"Wherever there was a man, he saw a snob"; and snobbery, the jockeying for
social position and the pretense to a status rather higher than the person's true
one he saw as the main driving force of man in society. This view of man has
satisfied ...
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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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