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So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve , who needed only to look into his own heart to discover what ...
So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve , who needed only to look into his own heart to discover what ...
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that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for myself as a novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction .
that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for myself as a novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction .
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... a verisimilitude grateful to an author much influenced by the French naturalists and a means of getting round some of the difficulties of the novelist who takes up the attitude of an all - seeing and allwise narrator .
... a verisimilitude grateful to an author much influenced by the French naturalists and a means of getting round some of the difficulties of the novelist who takes up the attitude of an all - seeing and allwise narrator .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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