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... writer of genius , but the writing of plays was at least compatible with being a gentleman . It was not yet so with fiction writing . Its public was ' low ' , its status that of a commodity for the masses which bore , in the eyes of men ...
... writer of genius , but the writing of plays was at least compatible with being a gentleman . It was not yet so with fiction writing . Its public was ' low ' , its status that of a commodity for the masses which bore , in the eyes of men ...
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... writing in the days of George II , helped greatly to overcome some of Thackeray's weaknesses in dealing with his own time . At least we are free of the obsession with snobs and snobbery . This story of love set in the Augustan age is ...
... writing in the days of George II , helped greatly to overcome some of Thackeray's weaknesses in dealing with his own time . At least we are free of the obsession with snobs and snobbery . This story of love set in the Augustan age is ...
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... writing it Bennett was in conscious rivalry with Maupassant in Une Vie . But perhaps what is much more important to ... writing the novel , Bennett had lived eight years in Paris ; but he had spent the twenty most formative years of his ...
... writing it Bennett was in conscious rivalry with Maupassant in Une Vie . But perhaps what is much more important to ... writing the novel , Bennett had lived eight years in Paris ; but he had spent the twenty most formative years of his ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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