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... action and excitement must be main- tained at all costs ; so that the fluctuations of public demand tended to dictate the course future action would take . The one test of success was success , which could only be interpreted by sales ...
... action and excitement must be main- tained at all costs ; so that the fluctuations of public demand tended to dictate the course future action would take . The one test of success was success , which could only be interpreted by sales ...
Page 198
... action , of Heathcliff's arrival , his brutalization by Hindley Earnshaw , his revenge on him and on Edgar Linton , who marries Catherine Earnshaw , and his deliberate attempts to bring down and degrade both families as he himself had ...
... action , of Heathcliff's arrival , his brutalization by Hindley Earnshaw , his revenge on him and on Edgar Linton , who marries Catherine Earnshaw , and his deliberate attempts to bring down and degrade both families as he himself had ...
Page 312
... action is reflected and interpreted in the consciousnesses of certain of the characters who , though never passive and all furthering the action , function incidentally as a chorus to the whole . These charac- ters include Mrs Gould ...
... action is reflected and interpreted in the consciousnesses of certain of the characters who , though never passive and all furthering the action , function incidentally as a chorus to the whole . These charac- ters include Mrs Gould ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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