English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... interest . Through incidents and anecdotes the important writers are made distinctive figures instead of mere names . Those anecdotes have been chosen which are most frequently alluded to in literature . To provide a background for such ...
... interest . Through incidents and anecdotes the important writers are made distinctive figures instead of mere names . Those anecdotes have been chosen which are most frequently alluded to in literature . To provide a background for such ...
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... interest for anybody . Only one now and then will so appeal to some people that they will keep on reading and re - reading it , recommending it to their friends , and insisting on its interest , or its truth , or its beauty . If a book ...
... interest for anybody . Only one now and then will so appeal to some people that they will keep on reading and re - reading it , recommending it to their friends , and insisting on its interest , or its truth , or its beauty . If a book ...
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... interest , but determined to correct Gold- smith's idyllic picture of village life , George Crabbe ( 1754-1832 ) , a native of the poor fishing - village of Aldeburgh on the east coast , wrote The Village ( 1783 ) in stiff heroic ...
... interest , but determined to correct Gold- smith's idyllic picture of village life , George Crabbe ( 1754-1832 ) , a native of the poor fishing - village of Aldeburgh on the east coast , wrote The Village ( 1783 ) in stiff heroic ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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