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... London with his old school friend Strap , now his valet , to make his fortune . In London he is cozened and cheated by a succession of rogues , tries to enter the navy as a surgeon's mate but , de- spite his professional qualifications ...
... London with his old school friend Strap , now his valet , to make his fortune . In London he is cozened and cheated by a succession of rogues , tries to enter the navy as a surgeon's mate but , de- spite his professional qualifications ...
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... London in loneliness and poverty . The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford is a poignant account of loneliness both spiritual and material . Its theme is the religious and intellectual bankruptcy of dissent in the forties . The great ...
... London in loneliness and poverty . The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford is a poignant account of loneliness both spiritual and material . Its theme is the religious and intellectual bankruptcy of dissent in the forties . The great ...
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... London scene is rendered as perfectly and as vividly as anywhere in fiction ; London is as much " there " as in the novels of Dickens or in The Princess Casamassima for all that it is not in any sense a detachable background but caught ...
... London scene is rendered as perfectly and as vividly as anywhere in fiction ; London is as much " there " as in the novels of Dickens or in The Princess Casamassima for all that it is not in any sense a detachable background but caught ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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