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... tragic story- one says ' apparently ' because finally the novel is not tragic but some- thing for which we lack a word , though perhaps heroic is the nearest نے we can get - through the years down to THE EARLY VICTORIANS 197.
... tragic story- one says ' apparently ' because finally the novel is not tragic but some- thing for which we lack a word , though perhaps heroic is the nearest نے we can get - through the years down to THE EARLY VICTORIANS 197.
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... tragic novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge . Henchard is his grandest hero as Tess is his most moving heroine , and much of Henchard's tragic greatness comes from his impercipience . He contains all nature within himself , as a truly ...
... tragic novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge . Henchard is his grandest hero as Tess is his most moving heroine , and much of Henchard's tragic greatness comes from his impercipience . He contains all nature within himself , as a truly ...
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... tragic level than ever he was to do later . His view of life was not tragic ; it was a stoical acceptance of things as they are , a reluctant conformism . The great discovery of Edwin Clayhanger's life is ' Injustice is a tremendous ...
... tragic level than ever he was to do later . His view of life was not tragic ; it was a stoical acceptance of things as they are , a reluctant conformism . The great discovery of Edwin Clayhanger's life is ' Injustice is a tremendous ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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