The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... wrote The Pilgrim's Progress ; in 1719 , a failed haberdasher who had turned journalist and govern ment spy wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Moll Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master printer wrote Pamela . Even ...
... wrote The Pilgrim's Progress ; in 1719 , a failed haberdasher who had turned journalist and govern ment spy wrote Robinson Crusoe , and , three years later , Moll Flanders ; in 1740 , a middle - aged master printer wrote Pamela . Even ...
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... wrote . It is dis- concerting in its mixture of the completely conventional and the genuinely racy . On one side Miss Ferrier was a feminine , better tempered Smollett , on the other a minor Maria Edgeworth at her most pedagogically ...
... wrote . It is dis- concerting in its mixture of the completely conventional and the genuinely racy . On one side Miss Ferrier was a feminine , better tempered Smollett , on the other a minor Maria Edgeworth at her most pedagogically ...
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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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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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