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Page 47
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 like ...
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 like ...
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It was an event affecting the English 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 ...
It was an event affecting the English 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 ...
Page 124
Let us suppose that a young writer has made the mistake and that he plans to write a novel about himself . It is not to be a novel like other novels . It is to be an original masterpiece . It is to be grim , gay , piercingly perceptive ...
Let us suppose that a young writer has made the mistake and that he plans to write a novel about himself . It is not to be a novel like other novels . It is to be an original masterpiece . It is to be grim , gay , piercingly perceptive ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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