Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... story - teller and a story - reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible " and it was his genius to create an excited sympathy with his very first words . " The kettle began it , " he says . " Don't tell me what ...
... story - teller and a story - reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible " and it was his genius to create an excited sympathy with his very first words . " The kettle began it , " he says . " Don't tell me what ...
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... story about them . Sometimes it is a good story ; sometimes it is a bad one ; but I follow the tradition of psychological drama common to the Elizabethan dramatists , Hardy , Meredith , and , much emasculated , Henry James . I see a ...
... story about them . Sometimes it is a good story ; sometimes it is a bad one ; but I follow the tradition of psychological drama common to the Elizabethan dramatists , Hardy , Meredith , and , much emasculated , Henry James . I see a ...
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... story , for me , its interest . And I believe in " story " because I think it leaves the author free to illustrate — not analyse - character in all its variety . Story is a part of the dramatic method . The dramatic method is not ...
... story , for me , its interest . And I believe in " story " because I think it leaves the author free to illustrate — not analyse - character in all its variety . Story is a part of the dramatic method . The dramatic method is not ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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