Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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... born in London and educated at Trinity College and Trinity Hall , Cambridge , was a politician , novelist , and dramatist . Possessed of a curiously receptive mind he was easily impressed by the fashions of the day , and wrote a large ...
... born in London and educated at Trinity College and Trinity Hall , Cambridge , was a politician , novelist , and dramatist . Possessed of a curiously receptive mind he was easily impressed by the fashions of the day , and wrote a large ...
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... born at Leytonstone , in Essex , and educated at Oxford High School . He published several volumes of verse , and his historical plays , Abraham Lincoln , Mary Stuart , Oliver Cromwell , and Robert E. Lee , brought him fame . He was ...
... born at Leytonstone , in Essex , and educated at Oxford High School . He published several volumes of verse , and his historical plays , Abraham Lincoln , Mary Stuart , Oliver Cromwell , and Robert E. Lee , brought him fame . He was ...
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... born at Hanley , in Staffordshire , and sets the scene of many of his novels in the Potteries . After leaving school he entered a lawyer's office , but in 1893 , following some success with short stories and articles , he went to London ...
... born at Hanley , in Staffordshire , and sets the scene of many of his novels in the Potteries . After leaving school he entered a lawyer's office , but in 1893 , following some success with short stories and articles , he went to London ...
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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