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It is difficult to imagine any programme which, if carried out, would be more utterly ruinous to a country situated as Great Britain is today.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"toctoggle\">Table of Contents <a class=\"button\" href=\"#toc\">Expand \u2193<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"toc\" class=\"table-of-contents\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Preface<\/td>\n<td>vii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>PART ONE<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Introduction<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Thomas Hardy<\/td>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>The Novelists Multiply<\/td>\n<td>49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>General Lessons<\/td>\n<td>59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>PART TWO<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Is Christianity Fiction?<\/td>\n<td>79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>97<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks at \u2018How Fiction Changed Britain\u2019 in late Victorian and Edwardian times. 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