The English Novel
by George Saintsbury
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Published in 1913, Saintsbury's study of the history of the novel in England examines its influences and origins. His critical essays include discussions on the works of Swift, Scott, Thackeray, Austen, Dickens, as well as writers of the late-nineteenth century.Tags
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George Saintsbury (1845-1933) was Professor of Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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- Canonical title
- The English Novel
- Original publication date
- 1913
- First words
- One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical langua... (show all)ges, of what we call by that name.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the finest of its already existing examples it hardly yields in accomplishment even to poetry; in that great secondary (if secondary) office of all Art---to redress the apparent injustice, and console for the apparent unkindness, of Nature---to serve as rest and refreshment between those exactions of life which, though neither unjust nor unkind, are burdensome, it has no equal among all the kinds of Art itself.
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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