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... reader as old is often surprising in earlier novels . Adam Verver , in The Golden Bowl ( 1904 ) , is only forty - seven , though he makes a more elderly impression and Charlotte says that he is responsible for the infertility of their ...
... reader as old is often surprising in earlier novels . Adam Verver , in The Golden Bowl ( 1904 ) , is only forty - seven , though he makes a more elderly impression and Charlotte says that he is responsible for the infertility of their ...
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... reader found the suggestion more plainly pronounced than the modern reader , having fewer cases of sexual frankness before him , being more accustomed to implicit rather than explicit sexual themes , and having no hardened prejudices ...
... reader found the suggestion more plainly pronounced than the modern reader , having fewer cases of sexual frankness before him , being more accustomed to implicit rather than explicit sexual themes , and having no hardened prejudices ...
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... reader . George Eliot answers certain questions for Gwendolen , and for her mother , who is indeed to sorrow over her daughter's expensively purchased possessions , but she answers them even more fully for the critical reader . This ...
... reader . George Eliot answers certain questions for Gwendolen , and for her mother , who is indeed to sorrow over her daughter's expensively purchased possessions , but she answers them even more fully for the critical reader . This ...
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