Literature and Life, 4. raamatWilliam Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Dudley Howe Miles, Edwin Greenlaw Scott, Foresman and Company, 1933 |
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... romance , which was a leisurely recital of event after event drawn out to fill the interminable win- ter evenings in the castle . In fact , the ballad is a kind of short story in verse , dealing with a single situation , and told in an ...
... romance , which was a leisurely recital of event after event drawn out to fill the interminable win- ter evenings in the castle . In fact , the ballad is a kind of short story in verse , dealing with a single situation , and told in an ...
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... romance , and many of these romances are still read today with gusto . The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1834 ) by Bulwer - Lytton , Westward Ho ! ( 1853 ) by Charles Kingsley , and The Cloister and the Hearth ( 1861 ) by Charles Reade , are ...
... romance , and many of these romances are still read today with gusto . The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1834 ) by Bulwer - Lytton , Westward Ho ! ( 1853 ) by Charles Kingsley , and The Cloister and the Hearth ( 1861 ) by Charles Reade , are ...
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... romance wished to accept it as true , at least while he was racing through it . He therefore came to demand more of the look of truth found in Defoe than Scott had provided . This requirement Stevenson meets . For one thing , his ...
... romance wished to accept it as true , at least while he was racing through it . He therefore came to demand more of the look of truth found in Defoe than Scott had provided . This requirement Stevenson meets . For one thing , his ...
Contents
HISTORY | 4 |
PART ONEPAGAN AND MEDIEVAL TIMES 55 B C 1500 A D | 5 |
SELECTIONS FOR CHAPTER I | 15 |
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