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A Short Critical History Walter Allen. PELICAN BOOKS THE ENGLISH NOVEL Walter Allen was born in 1911 in Birmingham and is a graduate in English of the university of that city . His novels include Innocence is Drowned , Blind Man's Ditch ...
A Short Critical History Walter Allen. PELICAN BOOKS THE ENGLISH NOVEL Walter Allen was born in 1911 in Birmingham and is a graduate in English of the university of that city . His novels include Innocence is Drowned , Blind Man's Ditch ...
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... novel in England can scarcely be over - estimated . It was immeasurably greater than that of the fiction of the period . To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels is no doubt to find them un ... novel we 24 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... novel in England can scarcely be over - estimated . It was immeasurably greater than that of the fiction of the period . To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels is no doubt to find them un ... novel we 24 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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... human situation than theirs . Dying in 1916 , he appears still in many ways our con- temporary , the greatest of our contemporaries . We read him today as a modern novelist in a sense that Stevenson , 262 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... human situation than theirs . Dying in 1916 , he appears still in many ways our con- temporary , the greatest of our contemporaries . We read him today as a modern novelist in a sense that Stevenson , 262 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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