British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8Scribner, 1979 - 400 pages This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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... things were really not his game . ( ch . 26 ) He burns the damning letter , and his friend Mrs. Tristram comments with reference to the Belle- gardes : " Their confidence , after counsel taken of each other , was not in their innocence ...
... things were really not his game . ( ch . 26 ) He burns the damning letter , and his friend Mrs. Tristram comments with reference to the Belle- gardes : " Their confidence , after counsel taken of each other , was not in their innocence ...
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... things ab- sorb the self , and the self abandons itself to thing- hood . Isabel is dangerously one - sided - and vulner- able - in what she thinks of as her contempt for the encircling things that make up her world as much as they do ...
... things ab- sorb the self , and the self abandons itself to thing- hood . Isabel is dangerously one - sided - and vulner- able - in what she thinks of as her contempt for the encircling things that make up her world as much as they do ...
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... things " ( his room , full of rifles , whips , tobacco pots - a different kind of collection - is the one " monstrosity " of Poynton ) . Thus his mother , who cares passionately about the things , is very con- cerned that he should ...
... things " ( his room , full of rifles , whips , tobacco pots - a different kind of collection - is the one " monstrosity " of Poynton ) . Thus his mother , who cares passionately about the things , is very con- cerned that he should ...
Contents
GEORGE MOORE A Norman Jeffares | 1 |
ARNOLD BENNETT Kenneth Young | 247 |
JOHN GALSWORTHY Margery M Morgan | 269 |
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