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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 .
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 .
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
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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