Watched by the Dead: A Loving Study of Dickens' Half-told TaleW.H. Allen & Company, 1887 - 166 Seiten |
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... the story turns on a murder . Mystery is not suggested chiefly by the ques- tion , " Who is the murderer ? " ( about which no reader of average intelligence can have any doubt ) , but by doubts as to the way DICKENS'S FAVOURITE THEME . 13.
... the story turns on a murder . Mystery is not suggested chiefly by the ques- tion , " Who is the murderer ? " ( about which no reader of average intelligence can have any doubt ) , but by doubts as to the way DICKENS'S FAVOURITE THEME . 13.
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... suggested at every turn of the narrative . Longfellow , as a poet , felt the real meaning of the tones in which Dickens told that seemingly common- place story , and heard beneath them voices telling a story full of pathos and tragic ...
... suggested at every turn of the narrative . Longfellow , as a poet , felt the real meaning of the tones in which Dickens told that seemingly common- place story , and heard beneath them voices telling a story full of pathos and tragic ...
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... suggest , " and " was not alarmed by the supposi- tion . " But here also he proposed to himself " to keep for a long time unsuspected , yet always working itself out , another purpose originating in the leading incident , and turning it ...
... suggest , " and " was not alarmed by the supposi- tion . " But here also he proposed to himself " to keep for a long time unsuspected , yet always working itself out , another purpose originating in the leading incident , and turning it ...
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... suggest , can be recognised , can even be felt , by readers more discerning . Let us consider some of these . The story , so far as it runs , must first be sketched , but very briefly , and not so much with the idea of conveying even ...
... suggest , can be recognised , can even be felt , by readers more discerning . Let us consider some of these . The story , so far as it runs , must first be sketched , but very briefly , and not so much with the idea of conveying even ...
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... suggest , but which a class of readers would suppose he was at great pains to conceal , " is John Jasper's plot to murder Edwin Drood . 66 Nor is the nature of the plot hidden . We know that Edwin is to be strangled with the large black ...
... suggest , but which a class of readers would suppose he was at great pains to conceal , " is John Jasper's plot to murder Edwin Drood . 66 Nor is the nature of the plot hidden . We know that Edwin is to be strangled with the large black ...
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