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... English of the university of that city . His novels include Innocence is Drowned , Blind Man's Ditch , Rogue ... English Novelists ' series , and of Six Great Novelists , and has also compiled the anthology Writers on Writ- ing . His ...
... English of the university of that city . His novels include Innocence is Drowned , Blind Man's Ditch , Rogue ... English Novelists ' series , and of Six Great Novelists , and has also compiled the anthology Writers on Writ- ing . His ...
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... 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 the English novel , a change so significant as almost to amount to a mutation ...
... 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 the English novel , a change so significant as almost to amount to a mutation ...
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... English . It was Flaubert who said : ' Art is not made to paint the exceptions ' , and he added that the characters most suited to fiction were the ' more general ' because they were the more typical . This is not the English view ...
... English . It was Flaubert who said : ' Art is not made to paint the exceptions ' , and he added that the characters most suited to fiction were the ' more general ' because they were the more typical . This is not the English view ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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