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Page 29
... least expected of quarters and in the least expected of forms . Bunyan was fifty when he published The Pilgrim's Progress in 1678. He had of course no thought of writing a novel ; indeed , we read it as a novel today simply because of ...
... least expected of quarters and in the least expected of forms . Bunyan was fifty when he published The Pilgrim's Progress in 1678. He had of course no thought of writing a novel ; indeed , we read it as a novel today simply because of ...
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... least are suggested by life : Scythrop is based on Shelley , and not only in his inability to choose between two equally loved young ladies ; Mr Flosky is Cole- ridge ; Mr Cypress , Byron . The satire dazzles ; the various aspects of ...
... least are suggested by life : Scythrop is based on Shelley , and not only in his inability to choose between two equally loved young ladies ; Mr Flosky is Cole- ridge ; Mr Cypress , Byron . The satire dazzles ; the various aspects of ...
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... least intellectual and the least romantic of novelists . In nineteenth - century England , too , he was the one with the widest experience of life , experience as an important civil servant , as a man who delighted in the social ...
... least intellectual and the least romantic of novelists . In nineteenth - century England , too , he was the one with the widest experience of life , experience as an important civil servant , as a man who delighted in the social ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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