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... important part of their function to create characters . A novel is a totality , made up of all the words in it , and ... importance since , so far as the reader is concerned , without it the most profound apprehensions of man's fate ...
... important part of their function to create characters . A novel is a totality , made up of all the words in it , and ... importance since , so far as the reader is concerned , without it the most profound apprehensions of man's fate ...
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... important than the discovery of a fictitious East , the falsity of which could always be exposed by actual ... importance only to the discovery of classical antiquity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . But as with the first ...
... important than the discovery of a fictitious East , the falsity of which could always be exposed by actual ... importance only to the discovery of classical antiquity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . But as with the first ...
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... important part . In her valuable document , " Notes on Writing a Novel , " in Collected Im- pressions , Elizabeth Bowen has stated that the object of the novel is " the non - poetic statement of a poetic truth . " Fully to disengage the ...
... important part . In her valuable document , " Notes on Writing a Novel , " in Collected Im- pressions , Elizabeth Bowen has stated that the object of the novel is " the non - poetic statement of a poetic truth . " Fully to disengage the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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