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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 later ,
Moll ...
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 later ,
Moll ...
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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 still
valuable in their own right , if the best of the scientific romances are included ...
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 still
valuable in their own right , if the best of the scientific romances are included ...
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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 would
have to ...
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 would
have to ...
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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 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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