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... George Eliot that it is now extremely hard to imagine them spoken with passion and sincerity . George Eliot tried too hard with Dinah , and she tried too hard with Adam Bede , who seems now a humourless , hectoring , loquacious prig ...
... George Eliot that it is now extremely hard to imagine them spoken with passion and sincerity . George Eliot tried too hard with Dinah , and she tried too hard with Adam Bede , who seems now a humourless , hectoring , loquacious prig ...
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... George Eliot could have succeeded with it in her own time , and no novelist of any seriousness since her day would have dared attempt it . It has the charm of a fairy story with the solidity of a completely created fictitious society ...
... George Eliot could have succeeded with it in her own time , and no novelist of any seriousness since her day would have dared attempt it . It has the charm of a fairy story with the solidity of a completely created fictitious society ...
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... George Eliot's intuitive understanding of spiritual and intellectual ardour . And reading of Esther Lyon's relation with Felix , one sees how George Eliot enters and occupies an area of experience novelists have commonly ignored : the ...
... George Eliot's intuitive understanding of spiritual and intellectual ardour . And reading of Esther Lyon's relation with Felix , one sees how George Eliot enters and occupies an area of experience novelists have commonly ignored : the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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