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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
the ...
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
the ...
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
...
Page 247
But despite the excellence of some of the characterization, that of the
Swedenborgian Dr. Bryerly, the chattering, shrewd Lady Knollys, and the wholly
sinister Uncle Silas himself, the story fails in the end because it drops from its
original truly ...
But despite the excellence of some of the characterization, that of the
Swedenborgian Dr. Bryerly, the chattering, shrewd Lady Knollys, and the wholly
sinister Uncle Silas himself, the story fails in the end because it drops from its
original truly ...
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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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