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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... wrote his first novels , powerful but disgusting , concerning life at sea . His most readable book is Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) , which in a series of letters amusingly describes the travels around England and Scotland of a Welsh family ...
... wrote his first novels , powerful but disgusting , concerning life at sea . His most readable book is Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) , which in a series of letters amusingly describes the travels around England and Scotland of a Welsh family ...
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... wrote The Pleasures of Hope ( 1799 ) in heroic couplets and with all the old abstract personifications . But even he wrote in Spenserian stanzas Gertrude of Wyoming ( Wyoming in Pennsylvania , 1809 ) . Perhaps he was interested in ...
... wrote The Pleasures of Hope ( 1799 ) in heroic couplets and with all the old abstract personifications . But even he wrote in Spenserian stanzas Gertrude of Wyoming ( Wyoming in Pennsylvania , 1809 ) . Perhaps he was interested in ...
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... wrote for Punch until ill health forced him to retire to the country , where he wrote only a few plays before committing suicide . His plays are clever , acid comedies of contemporary life which show the influence of Shaw . The Return ...
... wrote for Punch until ill health forced him to retire to the country , where he wrote only a few plays before committing suicide . His plays are clever , acid comedies of contemporary life which show the influence of Shaw . The Return ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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