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it must be remembered that , as a matter of fact , eighteenthcentury man did weep much more readily than we do . Mackenzie wrote very well indeed . His novel is presented as a series of fragments , a device he had perhaps picked up from ...
it must be remembered that , as a matter of fact , eighteenthcentury man did weep much more readily than we do . Mackenzie wrote very well indeed . His novel is presented as a series of fragments , a device he had perhaps picked up from ...
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were not those of Dostoevski or Tolstoi ; yet in spite of the genuineness of his affinity with Dickens , Dostoevski , with 7 his tremendous subject matter of man in relation to God , is plainly using the novel with a depth of ...
were not those of Dostoevski or Tolstoi ; yet in spite of the genuineness of his affinity with Dickens , Dostoevski , with 7 his tremendous subject matter of man in relation to God , is plainly using the novel with a depth of ...
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“ The root of the whole matter , " he said , " is that a novel is not a transcript of life , to be judged by its exactitude ; but a simplification of some side or point of life , to stand or fall by its significant simplicity .
“ The root of the whole matter , " he said , " is that a novel is not a transcript of life , to be judged by its exactitude ; but a simplification of some side or point of life , to stand or fall by its significant simplicity .
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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 Volume 9 of A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback The English Novel: A Short Critical History, Walter Ernest Allen |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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