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... successful , transcend what we may call their prose translations . If true symbols , they can never be reduced to what their creator believes they stand for . It is an index of Godwin's successful use of symbol that the reader today ...
... successful , transcend what we may call their prose translations . If true symbols , they can never be reduced to what their creator believes they stand for . It is an index of Godwin's successful use of symbol that the reader today ...
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... successful male character and as a man is much more convincing than any of Charlotte Brontë's . He is not a dream figure ; he has been observed by a woman who knows the world and is judged in the novel by a girl of high spirits ...
... successful male character and as a man is much more convincing than any of Charlotte Brontë's . He is not a dream figure ; he has been observed by a woman who knows the world and is judged in the novel by a girl of high spirits ...
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... successful than others and to be successful , indeed , almost in inverse ratio to their ambition . It has become customary to write of Virginia Woolf as though she were essentially a poet who happened to use the medium of prose . But ...
... successful than others and to be successful , indeed , almost in inverse ratio to their ambition . It has become customary to write of Virginia Woolf as though she were essentially a poet who happened to use the medium of prose . But ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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