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... brilliant raconteur . Indeed , the writing , with its ease , its vigour , its colour , and its rapidity , might almost be taken for what , in fact , it purports to be - conversation put into print , were it not for the magical ...
... brilliant raconteur . Indeed , the writing , with its ease , its vigour , its colour , and its rapidity , might almost be taken for what , in fact , it purports to be - conversation put into print , were it not for the magical ...
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... brilliant Adolphe of Benjamin Constant , produced in the early years of the nineteenth century . Even when the framework was larger - as in Le Sage's Gil Blas and Marivaux's Vie de Marianne - the spirit was the same ; it was the spirit ...
... brilliant Adolphe of Benjamin Constant , produced in the early years of the nineteenth century . Even when the framework was larger - as in Le Sage's Gil Blas and Marivaux's Vie de Marianne - the spirit was the same ; it was the spirit ...
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... brilliant novels and yet more brilliant short stories , to an almost fiendishly realistic treatment of modern life . A precisely contrary tendency marks the poetry of VERLAINE . While Maupassant completely disengaged prose from every ...
... brilliant novels and yet more brilliant short stories , to an almost fiendishly realistic treatment of modern life . A precisely contrary tendency marks the poetry of VERLAINE . While Maupassant completely disengaged prose from every ...
Contents
ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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