The Story of English LiteratureThe function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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... novels fall short of being great novels . You catch a glimpse of this habit of hers even in as fine and simple a tale as Silas Marner . It is more marked in another one of her early novels , The Mill on the Floss , because that novel is ...
... novels fall short of being great novels . You catch a glimpse of this habit of hers even in as fine and simple a tale as Silas Marner . It is more marked in another one of her early novels , The Mill on the Floss , because that novel is ...
Page 529
... novels there is no " society , " and there is no personal satire , no effort on the novelist's part to ridicule human folly . His are stories of the plain people of a single locality , that area of southwestern England including the ...
... novels there is no " society , " and there is no personal satire , no effort on the novelist's part to ridicule human folly . His are stories of the plain people of a single locality , that area of southwestern England including the ...
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... novels having to do with five successive generations of the Forsyte family prosperous London business people . It is ... novels as Hardy's and Thackeray's impress us as great novels , and such novels as Bennett's and Galsworthy's impress ...
... novels having to do with five successive generations of the Forsyte family prosperous London business people . It is ... novels as Hardy's and Thackeray's impress us as great novels , and such novels as Bennett's and Galsworthy's impress ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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