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... Bennett in his fiction made them five , for the sake of euphony - that now make up the city of Stoke - on - Trent ... Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene ...
... Bennett in his fiction made them five , for the sake of euphony - that now make up the city of Stoke - on - Trent ... Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene ...
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... Bennett that exists wholly in time , the simplest , least philosophically construed time , time that is the ticking of the clock . The French poet Laforgue sighed : Ah , que la vie est quotidienne . For Bennett that life is quotidian is ...
... Bennett that exists wholly in time , the simplest , least philosophically construed time , time that is the ticking of the clock . The French poet Laforgue sighed : Ah , que la vie est quotidienne . For Bennett that life is quotidian is ...
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... Bennett was attempting something of a lower order of creation and on a smaller scale ; yet they make a very considerable achievement . In Clayhanger Bennett was much closer to his subject . Edwin Clayhanger is not Bennett's exact ...
... Bennett was attempting something of a lower order of creation and on a smaller scale ; yet they make a very considerable achievement . In Clayhanger Bennett was much closer to his subject . Edwin Clayhanger is not Bennett's exact ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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