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Page 7
Thus , although there is an extended critical discussion in this book of some
English novelists who have been active in the last twenty years , I have become
increasingly aware that to write about modern English fiction is also , in some ...
Thus , although there is an extended critical discussion in this book of some
English novelists who have been active in the last twenty years , I have become
increasingly aware that to write about modern English fiction is also , in some ...
Page 8
All these failings are certainly to be found in the authors I discuss in this book ;
much of the time inevitably so , for reasons which I hope to establish as my
discussion proceeds . The debts I incurred in writing this book were manifold ; not
merely ...
All these failings are certainly to be found in the authors I discuss in this book ;
much of the time inevitably so , for reasons which I hope to establish as my
discussion proceeds . The debts I incurred in writing this book were manifold ; not
merely ...
Page 49
There is a comparable discussion of character in the late W. J. Harvey's book ,
Character and the Novel , published in 1965. His ideas are similar to those of
John Bayley and Iris Murdoch , although his book contains more argument and
aims ...
There is a comparable discussion of character in the late W. J. Harvey's book ,
Character and the Novel , published in 1965. His ideas are similar to those of
John Bayley and Iris Murdoch , although his book contains more argument and
aims ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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