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It is a rogue or picaresque story given a measure of actuality because pegged
down to a definite series of historic events . It opens with a scene in the English
camp before Tournay , which was besieged by Henry VIII in 1513 , and ends with
...
It is a rogue or picaresque story given a measure of actuality because pegged
down to a definite series of historic events . It opens with a scene in the English
camp before Tournay , which was besieged by Henry VIII in 1513 , and ends with
...
Page 94
The inspiration of the story came in a dream : he saw the hall and staircase of
Strawberry Hill , which was combined with vague memories of a Cambridge
college , with " a gigantic hand in armor " laid upon the banister . The gigantic
hand ...
The inspiration of the story came in a dream : he saw the hall and staircase of
Strawberry Hill , which was combined with vague memories of a Cambridge
college , with " a gigantic hand in armor " laid upon the banister . The gigantic
hand ...
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Uncle Silas represents the horror story in transition to the modern story of
detection . So far as I know it is the first novel to include the now familiar puzzle of
murder in a sealed room . But in fact , the supernatural and the purely rational —
and ...
Uncle Silas represents the horror story in transition to the modern story of
detection . So far as I know it is the first novel to include the now familiar puzzle of
murder in a sealed room . But in fact , the supernatural and the purely rational —
and ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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