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There is little that the prospective novelist could do , apart from circulating his work in manuscript , since the printing and ... for that matter , recorded on tape ) , and few novelists could meet it out of their own pockets .
There is little that the prospective novelist could do , apart from circulating his work in manuscript , since the printing and ... for that matter , recorded on tape ) , and few novelists could meet it out of their own pockets .
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For Bayley , Tolstoy is the supreme novelist - a judgement from which I presume no - one would wish to dissent - because he presents not a world , but the world ; in Tolstoy's fiction the experiences of the novel flow inevitably into ...
For Bayley , Tolstoy is the supreme novelist - a judgement from which I presume no - one would wish to dissent - because he presents not a world , but the world ; in Tolstoy's fiction the experiences of the novel flow inevitably into ...
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There is no awareness in his writing that it is at such moments when , as one readily agrees , the novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional illusion rises to ...
There is no awareness in his writing that it is at such moments when , as one readily agrees , the novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional illusion rises to ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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