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In 1678 , a tinker and itinerant preacher , in jail for his religious convictions , wrote The Pilgrim's Progress ; in 1719 , a failed haberdasher who had turned journalist and government spy wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years ...
In 1678 , a tinker and itinerant preacher , in jail for his religious convictions , wrote The Pilgrim's Progress ; in 1719 , a failed haberdasher who had turned journalist and government spy wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years ...
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All that has nothing to do with their merits as novelists . als Both were men of vast output in fiction ; to say nothing of their short stories , Wells wrote nearly fifty novels , Bennett thirty . Of these , perhaps ten of Wells's are ...
All that has nothing to do with their merits as novelists . als Both were men of vast output in fiction ; to say nothing of their short stories , Wells wrote nearly fifty novels , Bennett thirty . Of these , perhaps ten of Wells's are ...
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He wrote , of the genesis of the Tietjens books : “ I needed someone , some character , in lasting tribulation -with a permanent shackle and ball on his leg . ... A physical defect it could not be , for if I wrote about that character ...
He wrote , of the genesis of the Tietjens books : “ I needed someone , some character , in lasting tribulation -with a permanent shackle and ball on his leg . ... A physical defect it could not be , for if I wrote about that character ...
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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 |
| 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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