The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... Hardy the Novelist : " Christian teachers have always said that there was no alternative to Christianity but pessimism , that if Christian doctrine was not true , life was a tragedy . Hardy agreed with them . " He did so because he ...
... Hardy the Novelist : " Christian teachers have always said that there was no alternative to Christianity but pessimism , that if Christian doctrine was not true , life was a tragedy . Hardy agreed with them . " He did so because he ...
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... Hardy's mind and art it is probably The Return of the Native , his sixth book , published in 1878. A tragic love ... Hardy's idealists , the first of what have been called his " prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy ...
... Hardy's mind and art it is probably The Return of the Native , his sixth book , published in 1878. A tragic love ... Hardy's idealists , the first of what have been called his " prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy ...
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... Hardy is his attempt to express the significance of the great design in purely human terms . Failure was almost inescapable , for Hardy , as a man of his time and place , had no completely adequate myth through which his view of the ...
... Hardy is his attempt to express the significance of the great design in purely human terms . Failure was almost inescapable , for Hardy , as a man of his time and place , had no completely adequate myth through which his view of the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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