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Title: Only For Students of the Novel.
Review: This was the first book I had to read for the history of the novel in college. While I was working my way through this, I wondered if the rest of the class would be this slow. Moll does not command respect, pity or admiration. The scenes for the most part are not really memorable, and the supporting characters are not really convincing. Perhaps this is my biggest complaint. Charles Dickens can keep my interest even in an 800 page book. Yet Defoe could not hold my interest in 250 pages. The only reason I could give for reading this is that it shows a primitave stage in the development of the novel.
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