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Page 102
... completely intransigent attack on feudalism and the notion of aristocracy . Against the tyrannical , avaricious Lord Gron- dale Bage pits ' Man as he is not ' , man , that is to say , as he scarcely existed at the time of writing ( and ...
... completely intransigent attack on feudalism and the notion of aristocracy . Against the tyrannical , avaricious Lord Gron- dale Bage pits ' Man as he is not ' , man , that is to say , as he scarcely existed at the time of writing ( and ...
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... completely . For what finally distinguishes one novelist from another , what makes one greater than another , is the sense we have of the author's response to life . It is difficult not to see Thackeray as a man defeated by life ; his ...
... completely . For what finally distinguishes one novelist from another , what makes one greater than another , is the sense we have of the author's response to life . It is difficult not to see Thackeray as a man defeated by life ; his ...
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... completely as detective novels , but the exi- gencies of detection are not allowed to cripple the characters : they spring , at any rate for the most part , from genuine observation and invention . Technically , these novels remain of ...
... completely as detective novels , but the exi- gencies of detection are not allowed to cripple the characters : they spring , at any rate for the most part , from genuine observation and invention . Technically , these novels remain of ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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