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... volumes . ( One critic referred to the three - decker as a perversely composed sandwich in which two slices of meat concealed a second volume which was ' a great slab of ill - baked and insipid bread ' ( see Griest , p . 206 ) . ) Those ...
... volumes . ( One critic referred to the three - decker as a perversely composed sandwich in which two slices of meat concealed a second volume which was ' a great slab of ill - baked and insipid bread ' ( see Griest , p . 206 ) . ) Those ...
Page 136
... volumes of 320 pages each and 25 lines in each page ' ! ) Perhaps the need to expand Oliver to three - volume length , though not at first three - volume format , explains inconsistencies and deficiencies in what had started out as a ...
... volumes of 320 pages each and 25 lines in each page ' ! ) Perhaps the need to expand Oliver to three - volume length , though not at first three - volume format , explains inconsistencies and deficiencies in what had started out as a ...
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... volume edition and the single - volume 6s . reprint grew shorter and shorter . The lending libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their potential ...
... volume edition and the single - volume 6s . reprint grew shorter and shorter . The lending libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their potential ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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