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... story — the seventh in the third decade of his Hecatommithi - is a ' novella ' written in the manner of Boccaccio , a perfectly straightfor- ward narrative , which , brief , matter - of - fact , with hardly a touch of colour or comment ...
... story — the seventh in the third decade of his Hecatommithi - is a ' novella ' written in the manner of Boccaccio , a perfectly straightfor- ward narrative , which , brief , matter - of - fact , with hardly a touch of colour or comment ...
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Lytton Strachey. ' A SIMPLE STORY'1 A Simple Story is one of those books which , for some reason or other , have failed to come down to us , as they deserved , along the current of time , but have drifted into a literary backwater where ...
Lytton Strachey. ' A SIMPLE STORY'1 A Simple Story is one of those books which , for some reason or other , have failed to come down to us , as they deserved , along the current of time , but have drifted into a literary backwater where ...
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... story takes place upon a staircase which has never been described . Thus the reader of modern novels is inevitably struck , in A Simple Story , by a sense of emptiness and thinness , which may well blind him to high intrinsic merits ...
... story takes place upon a staircase which has never been described . Thus the reader of modern novels is inevitably struck , in A Simple Story , by a sense of emptiness and thinness , which may well blind him to high intrinsic merits ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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