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Tag: novels

46. (Vladimir Nabokov)

Not only does it not matter that the Pale Fire poem is not any good, but it needs not to be any … More

Nabokov, novels, Pale Fire

45. (Vladimir Nabokov)

In his or her one or two or possibly three successful novels, the really great novelist manages to place before … More

aestheticism, Nabokov, novels, Prose

37. (Henry James)

His sentences are moved to excess with a wariness of waste. The inheritance of scrupulous, new-world economizing is carried over, … More

George Eliot, Henry James, novels, Prefaces, The Golden Bowl, William Empson, Wordsworth
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