The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence

by Raymond Williams

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Nice, thin treatment of the English novel in history. One might not agree with Williams's marxism, but he was a novelist himself and a sensitive and insightful reader. Nothing at all like the simplistic interpretations that gave marxist readings a bad name. (

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