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... true to say that any work of fiction written before about 1670 in England is in some sense an ancestor of the novel . But the novel itself is something new . True , it has never been found easy to define , but this does not prevent us ...
... true to say that any work of fiction written before about 1670 in England is in some sense an ancestor of the novel . But the novel itself is something new . True , it has never been found easy to define , but this does not prevent us ...
Page 162
... true in an insignificant way : Egan and Hook were popular journalists supplying a staple com- modity , and Dickens began in the same kind of journalism . There were bound to be points of superficial similarity between the man of genius ...
... true in an insignificant way : Egan and Hook were popular journalists supplying a staple com- modity , and Dickens began in the same kind of journalism . There were bound to be points of superficial similarity between the man of genius ...
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... true be- cause it is of the provinces ; in Hardy the picture is true not simply because it is of Wessex . At his best Bennett does achieve universality of a kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a ...
... true be- cause it is of the provinces ; in Hardy the picture is true not simply because it is of Wessex . At his best Bennett does achieve universality of a kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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