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... Adam Bede , was published in 1859. She has been described as the first modern English novelist . Put thus baldly , the statement begs too many questions to have much meaning . Yet it is true that her work marks a change in the nature of ...
... Adam Bede , was published in 1859. She has been described as the first modern English novelist . Put thus baldly , the statement begs too many questions to have much meaning . Yet it is true that her work marks a change in the nature of ...
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... Adam Bede falls into two parts . They may be summed up in two sentences that occur in the novel . She writes , in her capacity of narrator : ' It is for this rare , precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in many Dutch paintings ...
... Adam Bede falls into two parts . They may be summed up in two sentences that occur in the novel . She writes , in her capacity of narrator : ' It is for this rare , precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in many Dutch paintings ...
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... Adam Bede , who seems now a humourless , hectoring , loqua- scious prig . In this novel , as elsewhere , she is most successful in con- vincing us of human goodness when she does not go all out to do so ; in such a character as the ...
... Adam Bede , who seems now a humourless , hectoring , loqua- scious prig . In this novel , as elsewhere , she is most successful in con- vincing us of human goodness when she does not go all out to do so ; in such a character as the ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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