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The story ends with a grim suggestion of the two sinners ' last sufferings . But Chaucer can do more than give new life to an old story . He has the novelist's gift of revealing the human heart and unravelling the complexities of ...
The story ends with a grim suggestion of the two sinners ' last sufferings . But Chaucer can do more than give new life to an old story . He has the novelist's gift of revealing the human heart and unravelling the complexities of ...
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When Jack Sheppard , the notorious robber and prison - breaker , was at last condemned to death , Defoe wrote a story of his life , and gave it out to be the work of the prisoner , and printed at his wish .
When Jack Sheppard , the notorious robber and prison - breaker , was at last condemned to death , Defoe wrote a story of his life , and gave it out to be the work of the prisoner , and printed at his wish .
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Certainly he never wrote anything finer than the grand opening description of Egdon Heath ; and the spirit of that sombre Dorset upland pursues the story to its culminating tragedy . The whole conception of the book is poetic ; and such ...
Certainly he never wrote anything finer than the grand opening description of Egdon Heath ; and the spirit of that sombre Dorset upland pursues the story to its culminating tragedy . The whole conception of the book is poetic ; and such ...
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAUCER AND HIS | 13 |
THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION | 32 |
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