Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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Page 121
... appeared to be true . The fascination of the story rests not in its chronicle of events but in the portrait of an ordinary man forced by circumstances to lead the simple form of life , to do his own building and cooking , and at the ...
... appeared to be true . The fascination of the story rests not in its chronicle of events but in the portrait of an ordinary man forced by circumstances to lead the simple form of life , to do his own building and cooking , and at the ...
Page 243
... appeared in 1847 in monthly parts but attracted little notice until several instalments had appeared , and then it became immediately popular and Thackeray was famous . His other great novels followed : Pendennis ; Esmond , and its ...
... appeared in 1847 in monthly parts but attracted little notice until several instalments had appeared , and then it became immediately popular and Thackeray was famous . His other great novels followed : Pendennis ; Esmond , and its ...
Page 246
... appeared . Sybil is his best novel . In it he describes sympathetically the unhappy lives of the poor of England , and gives a correct historical impression of the condition of the working classes in the early nineteenth century . Apart ...
... appeared . Sybil is his best novel . In it he describes sympathetically the unhappy lives of the poor of England , and gives a correct historical impression of the condition of the working classes in the early nineteenth century . Apart ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANGLOSAXONS | 9 |
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND AFTER | 18 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 24 |
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