Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 91
... novelists . So , we feel , might any clever eighteenth - century lady have described the world , had she possessed a turn for writing . Fanny Burney must inevitably have been a minor novelist , for she had not been endowed with a major ...
... novelists . So , we feel , might any clever eighteenth - century lady have described the world , had she possessed a turn for writing . Fanny Burney must inevitably have been a minor novelist , for she had not been endowed with a major ...
Page 109
... novelist who has managed fully to satisfy the three essential require- ments of her art , the only one who has ... novelists of the world . The absorbing , searching interest she awakes in the mind - so that one turns to her again ...
... novelist who has managed fully to satisfy the three essential require- ments of her art , the only one who has ... novelists of the world . The absorbing , searching interest she awakes in the mind - so that one turns to her again ...
Page 126
... novelist's subject matter , in what is to a Western eye a distinctively Russian way . It combines , that is to say , as that of other novelists do not , an extreme realism with an extreme spirituality . Russian novels are both more ...
... novelist's subject matter , in what is to a Western eye a distinctively Russian way . It combines , that is to say , as that of other novelists do not , an extreme realism with an extreme spirituality . Russian novels are both more ...
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