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... appear in her work . But 1859 saw the publication not only of Adam Bede but also of another first novel , by a younger writer : George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel . Together , vastly different though they are , they stand ...
... appear in her work . But 1859 saw the publication not only of Adam Bede but also of another first novel , by a younger writer : George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel . Together , vastly different though they are , they stand ...
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... appear in the novelist's visionary intensity , as in Dickens and in a somewhat different way Hardy ; sometimes it will appear in his use of language , which , though not in the conventional form of poetry , will enable him to express ...
... appear in the novelist's visionary intensity , as in Dickens and in a somewhat different way Hardy ; sometimes it will appear in his use of language , which , though not in the conventional form of poetry , will enable him to express ...
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... appear as unreal : the girls , Rose Jocelyn and Juliana Bonner , are a different matter , for reasons that will be clear later . What saves the novel is the character of Evan's sister , the countess , a great comic figure on whom ...
... appear as unreal : the girls , Rose Jocelyn and Juliana Bonner , are a different matter , for reasons that will be clear later . What saves the novel is the character of Evan's sister , the countess , a great comic figure on whom ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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