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In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."

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In this introduction to aesthetics, Anne Sheppard describes various different theories of what it is that all works of art share that gives them their value.

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The author devotes a chapter to each of the six completed novels, in which she examines Jane Austen's presentation of her characters and her changing attitude to them, and the handling of major scenes, dialogue, reported speech, and ...

The author devotes a chapter to each of the six completed novels, in which she examines Jane Austen's presentation of her characters and her changing attitude to them, and the handling of major scenes, dialogue, reported speech, and ...

The author devotes a chapter to each of the six completed novels, in which she examines Jane Austen's presentation of her characters and her changing attitude to them, and the handling of major scenes, dialogue, reported speech, and ...