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... behaviour ' in loving his family and trusting his friends rightly earns him the contempt of the whole jail . Apart from the interlude describing Mrs Heartfree's return from Africa , a flaw in the construction of the novel but ...
... behaviour ' in loving his family and trusting his friends rightly earns him the contempt of the whole jail . Apart from the interlude describing Mrs Heartfree's return from Africa , a flaw in the construction of the novel but ...
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... behaviour towards Grace Nugent , whom he loves , his renunciation of her when he believes he has discovered that she is illegitimate and therefore , as he theorizes , that she must have inherited her mother's frailty . We are even more ...
... behaviour towards Grace Nugent , whom he loves , his renunciation of her when he believes he has discovered that she is illegitimate and therefore , as he theorizes , that she must have inherited her mother's frailty . We are even more ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Allen. and a fairly rigid code of behaviour , a code of behaviour plainly in- comprehensible to many modern readers . Why , for instance , was it so wrong for the young Bertrams to perform a play in their ...
A Short Critical History Walter Allen. and a fairly rigid code of behaviour , a code of behaviour plainly in- comprehensible to many modern readers . Why , for instance , was it so wrong for the young Bertrams to perform a play in their ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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