Themes -- Truth
Truth: involving not just candor but the problematics of fiction.
Letter 4.2
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("This apparition ... so distant")
Letter 4.2
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("He was not ... a savage inhabitant")
Letter 4.3
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("Astonishment")
Letter 4.6
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("Frankly")
Letter 4.6
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("Unparalleled eloquence")
Letter 4.6
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("I have communicated to him without disguise") [1831 only]
Letter 4.6
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("Do you share my madness") [1831 only]
Letter 4.8
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("My tale conveys in its series internal evidence")
1.1.3
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("A sense of justice") [1831 only]
1.1.6
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("My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement") [1831 only]
1.1.7
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("To pursue my studies alone")
1.2.7
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("I expressed myself in measured terms") [1831 only]
1.3.4
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("I see by your eagerness")
1.3.4
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("Vision of a madman")
1.3.8
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("Blame")
1.3.8
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("Most interesting part of my tale")
1.5.1
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("You will confirm")
1.6.6
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("I fear, my friend")
1.6.11
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("A strange tale")
1.6.12
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("Every one else believes in her guilt")
1.6.12
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("A sense of justice")
1.7.1
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("Ravings of a madman")
1.7.2
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("A plain and simple explanation of the facts")
1.7.5
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("Confessed her guilt ")
1.7.7
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("I subscribed to a lie")
2.1.3
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("When falsehood can look so like the truth")
2.2.4
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("The wretched")
2.2.7
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("He thus began his tale")
2.5.1
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("The more moving part of my story")
2.6.3
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("They will prove the truth of my tale")
2.7.2
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("What ... destination?")
2.7.4
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("Your journal")
2.7.4
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("A true history")
2.9.7
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("Dante's iron ... hypocrites")
3.1.2
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("Candour")
3.1.3
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("Concealing the true reasons")
3.1.8
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("I will proceed with my tale")
Walton 1
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("Appearance of the simplest truth")
Walton 2
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("Corrected and augmented")
Walton 2
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("Offspring of solitude and delirium")
Walton 2
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("Almost as imposing and interesting as truth")
Walton 2
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("Endeavours to move the passions")
Walton 10
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("Examining my past conduct")
Walton 10
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("Greater claims to my attention")
Walton 10
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("Actuated by selfish and vicious motives")
Walton 11
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("I may still be misled by passion")