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... wrote The Pilgrim's Progress ; in 1719 , a failed haberdasher who had turned journalist and govern- ment spy wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Moll Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master printer wrote Pamela . Even ...
... wrote The Pilgrim's Progress ; in 1719 , a failed haberdasher who had turned journalist and govern- ment spy wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Moll Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master printer wrote Pamela . Even ...
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... wrote it had no practical experience of politics . Lath - and - paper personae , masks for the author himself , engage in scintillating conversation against a two- dimensional background , a world whose law is wit . Dis- raeli was never ...
... wrote it had no practical experience of politics . Lath - and - paper personae , masks for the author himself , engage in scintillating conversation against a two- dimensional background , a world whose law is wit . Dis- raeli was never ...
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... wrote , of the genesis of the Tietjens books : " I needed someone , some character , in lasting tribulation -with a permanent shackle and ball on his leg . . . . A physical defect it could not be , for if I wrote about that character he ...
... wrote , of the genesis of the Tietjens books : " I needed someone , some character , in lasting tribulation -with a permanent shackle and ball on his leg . . . . A physical defect it could not be , for if I wrote about that character he ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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