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intention and effect , the best of our recent historical novels have scant resemblance to the Janice Meredith's , Richard ... The nature of their preoccupation with the past may conceivably provide the source for a new kind of novel .
intention and effect , the best of our recent historical novels have scant resemblance to the Janice Meredith's , Richard ... The nature of their preoccupation with the past may conceivably provide the source for a new kind of novel .
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So , likewise , with the tradi- tional historical novel , which tells us very little about the past it purports to represent , but enlightens us con- cerning the time of its composition . The other use which fiction has sometimes made ...
So , likewise , with the tradi- tional historical novel , which tells us very little about the past it purports to represent , but enlightens us con- cerning the time of its composition . The other use which fiction has sometimes made ...
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In 1923 another novel appeared , Streets of Night , which is a curious production to come from the author of Three Soldiers . It reads like a typical first novel . It might have been written while Dos Passos was at Harvard , and yet it ...
In 1923 another novel appeared , Streets of Night , which is a curious production to come from the author of Three Soldiers . It reads like a typical first novel . It might have been written while Dos Passos was at Harvard , and yet it ...
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