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Page 37
It may not be progress, but it is certain that the present age is rather that of the
regimental number. The destiny of the world no longer seems to us to be
identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families. The world itself is no
longer this ...
It may not be progress, but it is certain that the present age is rather that of the
regimental number. The destiny of the world no longer seems to us to be
identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families. The world itself is no
longer this ...
Page 94
... writing which can make Fielding, with whom Robert Scholes rashly compares
him, seem infinitely sensitive and subtle. ... reading it is rather like being
imprisoned — for ever as it seems — in a vast comic strip, full of the denizens of
the huge ...
... writing which can make Fielding, with whom Robert Scholes rashly compares
him, seem infinitely sensitive and subtle. ... reading it is rather like being
imprisoned — for ever as it seems — in a vast comic strip, full of the denizens of
the huge ...
Page 218
I'm afraid I may have been unfair to Meyer Liben, who is a highly original and
interesting writer, and who seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than
Herlihy or Bowles, and certainly than Miss Bingham, who is very competent, but
who ...
I'm afraid I may have been unfair to Meyer Liben, who is a highly original and
interesting writer, and who seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than
Herlihy or Bowles, and certainly than Miss Bingham, who is very competent, but
who ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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