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Page 223
... George Eliot that it is now extremely hard to imagine them spoken with passion and sincerity . George Eliot tried too hard with Dinah , and she tried too hard with Adam Bede , who seems now a humourless , hectoring , loqua- scious prig ...
... George Eliot that it is now extremely hard to imagine them spoken with passion and sincerity . George Eliot tried too hard with Dinah , and she tried too hard with Adam Bede , who seems now a humourless , hectoring , loqua- scious prig ...
Page 227
... George Eliot lets herself , and her heroine , down very badly . She spoils her novel , and to make things worse , goes on to ruin it by the quite arbitrary ' tragic ' ending , the flood of the Floss , Maggie's rescue of her estranged ...
... George Eliot lets herself , and her heroine , down very badly . She spoils her novel , and to make things worse , goes on to ruin it by the quite arbitrary ' tragic ' ending , the flood of the Floss , Maggie's rescue of her estranged ...
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... George Ponderevo , the hero and the narrator . It was probably fatal that Wells decided to tell his story in the first person , especially since Ponderevo is as much con- cerned with ideas as his creator ; it meant almost inevitably ...
... George Ponderevo , the hero and the narrator . It was probably fatal that Wells decided to tell his story in the first person , especially since Ponderevo is as much con- cerned with ideas as his creator ; it meant almost inevitably ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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