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Page 38
... social satire has dropped out the Dickensian social con- tent ; and the continuators of the social novel have dropped the detective story . These continuators- Shaw , Galsworthy , Wells - have of course gone fur- ther than Dickens in ...
... social satire has dropped out the Dickensian social con- tent ; and the continuators of the social novel have dropped the detective story . These continuators- Shaw , Galsworthy , Wells - have of course gone fur- ther than Dickens in ...
Page 152
... social reformer , he wrote books about Wagner and Ibsen which in- troduced them to the English - speaking public as pri- marily social reformers , too . There is of course a social revolutionist , a man of 1848 , in Wagner , and a ...
... social reformer , he wrote books about Wagner and Ibsen which in- troduced them to the English - speaking public as pri- marily social reformers , too . There is of course a social revolutionist , a man of 1848 , in Wagner , and a ...
Page 164
... social situation - how quick and skillful he is at describing a new social type : the com- munist viscount , with his brutal language , which shocks his proletarian allies . But with the shouts and the broken glass , we are made to take ...
... social situation - how quick and skillful he is at describing a new social type : the com- munist viscount , with his brutal language , which shocks his proletarian allies . But with the shouts and the broken glass , we are made to take ...
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