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Page 95
... social world , her mistakes in society , her gradual discovery of its values , and her dis- covery of love , which , after some misunderstandings due to her innocence , ends in marriage . Evelina is told in letter form . It records ...
... social world , her mistakes in society , her gradual discovery of its values , and her dis- covery of love , which , after some misunderstandings due to her innocence , ends in marriage . Evelina is told in letter form . It records ...
Page 201
... social posi- tion and the pretense to a status rather higher than the person's true one he saw as the main driving force of man in society . This view of man has satisfied none of his critics ; the amassing of " petty details , " as ...
... social posi- tion and the pretense to a status rather higher than the person's true one he saw as the main driving force of man in society . This view of man has satisfied none of his critics ; the amassing of " petty details , " as ...
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... social scene ; his creative gusto and its results had to be checked against the facts of observed reality . Trollope wrote nothing better than some of the episodes in the Barchester novels ; but the best of the political novels and ...
... social scene ; his creative gusto and its results had to be checked against the facts of observed reality . Trollope wrote nothing better than some of the episodes in the Barchester novels ; but the best of the political novels and ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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