Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 47
... novel . It is in fact the length of a novel that kills . The journey through that length , the work , day after day , on what may be read in a few minutes or tossed aside after one impatient glance , is what causes novelists to drop off ...
... novel . It is in fact the length of a novel that kills . The journey through that length , the work , day after day , on what may be read in a few minutes or tossed aside after one impatient glance , is what causes novelists to drop off ...
Page 112
... novel ; for although Turgenev began writing a century ago , about a microcosm in which pride , restraint , and acceptance of suffering were paramount virtues , he was the first novelist in any language to give dramatically conceived ...
... novel ; for although Turgenev began writing a century ago , about a microcosm in which pride , restraint , and acceptance of suffering were paramount virtues , he was the first novelist in any language to give dramatically conceived ...
Page 124
... novel like other novels . It is to be an original masterpiece . It is to be grim , gay , piercingly perceptive , superbly courageous , witty , cynical , stark , and entirely uncompromising . About as long as Monte Cristo or Middlemarch ...
... novel like other novels . It is to be an original masterpiece . It is to be grim , gay , piercingly perceptive , superbly courageous , witty , cynical , stark , and entirely uncompromising . About as long as Monte Cristo or Middlemarch ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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