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from a few works from remote periods , such as the Confessions of St. Augustine , the prose literature of self - revela . tion scarcely existed in Defoe's day ; the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn , written during his boyhood , were not ...
from a few works from remote periods , such as the Confessions of St. Augustine , the prose literature of self - revela . tion scarcely existed in Defoe's day ; the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn , written during his boyhood , were not ...
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... a phrase the richer for its possible ambiguity , since there seems some doubt whether Conrad was using the word “ conscience " in its normal English sense or in its French meaning of percep| tion , consciousness .
... a phrase the richer for its possible ambiguity , since there seems some doubt whether Conrad was using the word “ conscience " in its normal English sense or in its French meaning of percep| tion , consciousness .
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а tion . The novel is conceived on a much smaller scale than 31 anything in Dickens , but Dickens himself created no surer character than Mr. Polly . He is in many ways the hero of a fairy story , but a hero he is , and has his moment ...
а tion . The novel is conceived on a much smaller scale than 31 anything in Dickens , but Dickens himself created no surer character than Mr. Polly . He is in many ways the hero of a fairy story , but a hero he is , and has his moment ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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