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Some of them were political ; and they took him in the end into journalism and pamphleteering , and at last the true field for his genius , by which he has ever since been known to the world . But he did not write Robinson Crusoe until ...
Some of them were political ; and they took him in the end into journalism and pamphleteering , and at last the true field for his genius , by which he has ever since been known to the world . But he did not write Robinson Crusoe until ...
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He told the professional politicians that unless the Bill were passed “ not one single house belonging to any peer that voted against it would have one stone standing upon another ” . He attacked the rotten boroughs , as they were ...
He told the professional politicians that unless the Bill were passed “ not one single house belonging to any peer that voted against it would have one stone standing upon another ” . He attacked the rotten boroughs , as they were ...
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In France , where political cleavages were less desperate and novel - writing was taken seriously , he enjoyed extraordinary prestige . In the United States he was revered and imitated by Henry James and W. D. Howells .
In France , where political cleavages were less desperate and novel - writing was taken seriously , he enjoyed extraordinary prestige . In the United States he was revered and imitated by Henry James and W. D. Howells .
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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