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Page vii
... novels are of no great consequence . They are either fragments of autobiography or are compiled from the careful notes he took of people with whom he was thrown into close contact , and can hardly be counted as novels at all . He was so ...
... novels are of no great consequence . They are either fragments of autobiography or are compiled from the careful notes he took of people with whom he was thrown into close contact , and can hardly be counted as novels at all . He was so ...
Page viii
... novelist's equipment , and if he is devoid of humour he will moan that humour is the death of fiction . In order to give the glow of life to brute fact it must be transmuted by passion , and so the only good novel Jules Renard wrote was ...
... novelist's equipment , and if he is devoid of humour he will moan that humour is the death of fiction . In order to give the glow of life to brute fact it must be transmuted by passion , and so the only good novel Jules Renard wrote was ...
Page xv
... novel , thinking it might entertain the reader who chanced to remember one or the other , to see on what materials I ... novels , which was natural to a boy in the class in which I was born ; and they are the expression of his revolt ...
... novel , thinking it might entertain the reader who chanced to remember one or the other , to see on what materials I ... novels , which was natural to a boy in the class in which I was born ; and they are the expression of his revolt ...
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