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Page 117
The historical novel calls surely for a profound experience of men to create living people out of those persons who with their different manners and different notions at first sight seem so alien to us ; and to recreate the past needs ...
The historical novel calls surely for a profound experience of men to create living people out of those persons who with their different manners and different notions at first sight seem so alien to us ; and to recreate the past needs ...
Page 149
This is a very great novel , but it is generally acknowledged that the end is unsatisfactory . The reason is not hard to find . Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed ...
This is a very great novel , but it is generally acknowledged that the end is unsatisfactory . The reason is not hard to find . Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed ...
Page 153
They have thought that they were learning something when they read novels in which the characters delivered their views on ... The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were ...
They have thought that they were learning something when they read novels in which the characters delivered their views on ... The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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