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But he wrote with the experience of a lifetime at sea and in the West Indies behind him , and his novels render that experience , with all its robustness , crudity , and horseplay , in plain terms . Much more interesting now is James ...
But he wrote with the experience of a lifetime at sea and in the West Indies behind him , and his novels render that experience , with all its robustness , crudity , and horseplay , in plain terms . Much more interesting now is James ...
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... from this secret deposit of exquisite moments , she thought , lifting the pad , while Lucy stood by her , trying to explain how Like Pater's , her attitude to experience is aesthetic . Transience is the very stuff of her material .
... from this secret deposit of exquisite moments , she thought , lifting the pad , while Lucy stood by her , trying to explain how Like Pater's , her attitude to experience is aesthetic . Transience is the very stuff of her material .
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and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What happens in a Virginia Woolf ...
and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What happens in a Virginia Woolf ...
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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 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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