Watched by the Dead: A Loving Study of Dickens' Half-told TaleW.H. Allen & Company, 1887 - 166 Seiten |
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... Friend , " Dickens takes " as the leading incident for his story " ( I quote his own words ) , " the idea of a man , young and perhaps eccentric , feigning to be dead , and being dead to all intents and purposes external to himself ...
... Friend , " Dickens takes " as the leading incident for his story " ( I quote his own words ) , " the idea of a man , young and perhaps eccentric , feigning to be dead , and being dead to all intents and purposes external to himself ...
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... friend are to marry , and how the murderer is to tell the story of his own crime as well as of his defeated attempt to bring about the death of the man he hates and fears . In such a story there is little of interest ; and the tone of ...
... friend are to marry , and how the murderer is to tell the story of his own crime as well as of his defeated attempt to bring about the death of the man he hates and fears . In such a story there is little of interest ; and the tone of ...
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... friends about his plot of " Edwin Drood , " all that the un- finished story really tells us , assures those who understand Dickens , that his favourite theme was to have been worked into this novel in striking and masterly fashion . The ...
... friends about his plot of " Edwin Drood , " all that the un- finished story really tells us , assures those who understand Dickens , that his favourite theme was to have been worked into this novel in striking and masterly fashion . The ...
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... Friend , " Dickens probably " foresaw , " to use his own words , " the likeli- hood that a class of readers and commentators would suppose he " was at great pains to con- ceal exactly what he was at great pains to suggest , " and " was ...
... Friend , " Dickens probably " foresaw , " to use his own words , " the likeli- hood that a class of readers and commentators would suppose he " was at great pains to con- ceal exactly what he was at great pains to suggest , " and " was ...
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... Friend , " Dickens had found this the most interesting and the most difficult part of his task . We may well believe , apart from the strong evidence afforded in the story itself , that Dickens intended to renew this interesting task ...
... Friend , " Dickens had found this the most interesting and the most difficult part of his task . We may well believe , apart from the strong evidence afforded in the story itself , that Dickens intended to renew this interesting task ...
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