The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... kind , and his work is as orig- inal as anything in literature can be . The kind of work he wrote was completely unheralded and , it has been said , had no influence on any fiction that came after it , but of that I am not so sure . It ...
... kind , and his work is as orig- inal as anything in literature can be . The kind of work he wrote was completely unheralded and , it has been said , had no influence on any fiction that came after it , but of that I am not so sure . It ...
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... kind word , a show of reason , and a monstrous tall story which must be true to a boy who cannot believe that falsity exists . And though he is a smaller character than David , Peter convinces and moves us in the same way . There is ...
... kind word , a show of reason , and a monstrous tall story which must be true to a boy who cannot believe that falsity exists . And though he is a smaller character than David , Peter convinces and moves us in the same way . There is ...
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... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breed- ing places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Pot- teries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breed- ing places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Pot- teries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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