Word: novels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...comparison of "Vanity Fair" with "Becky Sharp," it must be remembered that one is the work of a great dramatist, the other of a minor playwright. At the outset it is manifest that the novel must be radically altered in plot before it can be put on the stage. It needs, as playwrights say, a "situation...
Chaucer to Queen Elizabeth. Professor A. S. Hill will give two half-courses, one on the history and development of English literature in outline from 1700 to 1900, the other, on the be innings of the English novel. Professor Wendell will give a half course on the works of Shakespere...
...Turn of the Road," a novel by Eugenia Brooks Frothingham. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston and New York...
...Pillar of Salt," a novel by Jeannette Lee. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York...
...that of imitation. It is one of the traits of human nature, and appears in literature not only in imitation in writing, but also in the reading of the books of the day. In literary evolution there are no laws. Action is followed by re-action, the psychological novel replaces the romantic, and is in turn displaced. There is no invariable progress. Love of novelty makes for literary progress more than any other factor...