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Page 204
... stand on the threshold of abnormal psychology . Trollope handles him beautifully : he all but achieves the stature of a tragic hero ; in his suspicions of his own sanity and his humble acceptance of it , there is a touch of Lear ...
... stand on the threshold of abnormal psychology . Trollope handles him beautifully : he all but achieves the stature of a tragic hero ; in his suspicions of his own sanity and his humble acceptance of it , there is a touch of Lear ...
Page 259
... stand or fall by its significant simplicity . ' With this James had no difficulty in agreeing . Of course , art , in ... standing for life itself , or for that area of life the novelist has concerned himself with . A good novel is untrue ...
... stand or fall by its significant simplicity . ' With this James had no difficulty in agreeing . Of course , art , in ... standing for life itself , or for that area of life the novelist has concerned himself with . A good novel is untrue ...
Page 325
... stand for than he is of the strength of beauty and art . His defence against the Forsytes is in fact sentimentality ... stands re - reading more successfully , yet she doesn't seem more now than a pioneer in a kind of psychological ...
... stand for than he is of the strength of beauty and art . His defence against the Forsytes is in fact sentimentality ... stands re - reading more successfully , yet she doesn't seem more now than a pioneer in a kind of psychological ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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