Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 47
... 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 book in scenes ; I ...
... 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 book in scenes ; I ...
Page 125
... sometimes three months . If the author is proud , he will not worry the publisher . He cannot help fearing that if he does so he may arouse some prejudice . No ; wait . All the same , it is rather a good sign if the people don't ...
... sometimes three months . If the author is proud , he will not worry the publisher . He cannot help fearing that if he does so he may arouse some prejudice . No ; wait . All the same , it is rather a good sign if the people don't ...
Page 131
... sometimes discover in it a term belonging to a barbarian tongue ; but for literary purposes , presumably knowing nothing of Sanskrit , they were quite content with Greek . We , more fortunate , or more cluttered with literary origins ...
... sometimes discover in it a term belonging to a barbarian tongue ; but for literary purposes , presumably knowing nothing of Sanskrit , they were quite content with Greek . We , more fortunate , or more cluttered with literary origins ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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