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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Semi-Detached, Set, Midlands entitled Semi-Detached?
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conversations.value: Semi-Detached (play): Set in the Midlands, Fred Midway is working his way up the social ladder.\nHis desire to be accepted in circles to which he and his family do not really belong occupies much of his energy.\nNeedless to say, at first Fred's carefully laid plans to boost his standing in the local community backfire, before coming right in the end.
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Semi-Detached
  Poe, Edgar Allen: criteria for the short story of, 19–22, 36–37, , , 251n63; short fiction of, , ; urban sketches of, 34–37,
  Scott, Walter, , , , ; Dr. Jonas Dryasdust of, ; experiments with disruption by, ; Hazlitt on realism of, , 36–37; overflow of the past into the present in, , 291n4; "The Two Drovers" of, 23–24, ; urban sketches of,
  Walker, Emery: lantern slides of letters by, , , 160–66, , 275n18, 275nn28–29; split-slide technique of, 161–64, , 275n24
  Wells, H. G., , , 175–95, 282n74, 283n6; alienated narrators of, 186–87, 280n52; Conrad's views of, , , 178–79, 278nn18–19; critical response to, ; everyday worlds of, 188–91, 280n56; extreme perceptions of ordinary characters of, , , 182–84, , 197–98, , 279nn41–42; impact on science fiction by, , 189–95, 277n8, 281nn63–65; on involuntary acts, 184–86, 279n48; moderate modernism of, , 178–91, , 197–98, ; partially displaced (Plattner-like) characters of, 175–81, , 277n7; political disagreements of, , ; pseudonyms of, , 279n39; Victorian realist roots of, 177–81, , , 277n14, 277–78nn16–17, 279n41; Woolf's views of, , 277n12
  Williams, Raymond: on the aesthetic sphere of common people, 269n3; on affective elements of consciousness, 255n32; on Eliot's critical realism, ; on emergent and residual world views, , 167–68, 190–91; on Hardy's novels, ; on Millais, , 259n13; on overtly interpolated tales, ; on Wells's moderate modernism, , 190–91, ,
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is another paragraph?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Wells, H. G., , , 175–95, 282n74, 283n6; alienated narrators of, 186–87, 280n52; Conrad's views of, , , 178–79, 278nn18–19; critical response to, ; everyday worlds of, 188–91, 280n56; extreme perceptions of ordinary characters of, , , 182–84, , 197–98, , 279nn41–42; impact on science fiction by, , 189–95, 277n8, 281nn63–65; on involuntary acts, 184–86, 279n48; moderate modernism of, , 178–91, , 197–98, ; partially displaced (Plattner-like) characters of, 175–81, , 277n7; political disagreements of, , ; pseudonyms of, , 279n39; Victorian realist roots of, 177–81, , , 277n14, 277–78nn16–17, 279n41; Woolf's views of, , 277n12
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is the last three paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Wells, H. G., , , 175–95, 282n74, 283n6; alienated narrators of, 186–87, 280n52; Conrad's views of, , , 178–79, 278nn18–19; critical response to, ; everyday worlds of, 188–91, 280n56; extreme perceptions of ordinary characters of, , , 182–84, , 197–98, , 279nn41–42; impact on science fiction by, , 189–95, 277n8, 281nn63–65; on involuntary acts, 184–86, 279n48; moderate modernism of, , 178–91, , 197–98, ; partially displaced (Plattner-like) characters of, 175–81, , 277n7; political disagreements of, , ; pseudonyms of, , 279n39; Victorian realist roots of, 177–81, , , 277n14, 277–78nn16–17, 279n41; Woolf's views of, , 277n12
  Williams, Raymond: on the aesthetic sphere of common people, 269n3; on affective elements of consciousness, 255n32; on Eliot's critical realism, ; on emergent and residual world views, , 167–68, 190–91; on Hardy's novels, ; on Millais, , 259n13; on overtly interpolated tales, ; on Wells's moderate modernism, , 190–91, ,
  Zola, Émile: literary naturalism of, , 202–4, , , 284n23; social criticism by, ; on Wells's scientific romances,