Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

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Topic

Christianity Paganism

Speaker

Sidney

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

Children of the Ghetto

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Zionist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. The Jewish Publication Society, 1892, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto. Wayne State University Press, 1998, bk. 2, ch. 6.

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Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Topic
Disenchanted world

Author

Thomas Hardy
Source
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1891 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

Current Citation

Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.