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... wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Moll Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master - printer wrote Pamela . Even if we cannot define it , we know what to expect when we read a novel : We find there a close imitation of ...
... wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Moll Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master - printer wrote Pamela . Even if we cannot define it , we know what to expect when we read a novel : We find there a close imitation of ...
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... wrote ; or rather , the more he wrote the more he surmounted certain of his weaknesses . Perched as he is on the edge of the over - pathetic , Mr Harding is a very considerable achievement ; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness ...
... wrote ; or rather , the more he wrote the more he surmounted certain of his weaknesses . Perched as he is on the edge of the over - pathetic , Mr Harding is a very considerable achievement ; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness ...
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... wrote , of the genesis of the Tietjens books : ' I needed someone , some character , in lasting tribulation — with a permanent shackle and ball on his leg . . A physical defect it could not be , for if I wrote about that character he ...
... wrote , of the genesis of the Tietjens books : ' I needed someone , some character , in lasting tribulation — with a permanent shackle and ball on his leg . . A physical defect it could not be , for if I wrote about that character he ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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