English Literature ...New university society, 1941 |
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... TELLING A STORY HE most natural way of presenting a story is to tell it ; and the simplest way of telling a story is by narration . The reader listens while the novelist relates what happens . R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island is a good ...
... TELLING A STORY HE most natural way of presenting a story is to tell it ; and the simplest way of telling a story is by narration . The reader listens while the novelist relates what happens . R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island is a good ...
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... tell the story without giving a full description of it . Besides enlivening his story by conversation and description , the novelist is at liberty to retire in person , as a dramatist does . May Sinclair in The Tree of Heaven gives a ...
... tell the story without giving a full description of it . Besides enlivening his story by conversation and description , the novelist is at liberty to retire in person , as a dramatist does . May Sinclair in The Tree of Heaven gives a ...
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... telling the story and although no final result has been reached , the novel is now a recognised artistic form and as ... tell of something which has happened . But it is one of the hardest things in the world to begin so effectively that ...
... telling the story and although no final result has been reached , the novel is now a recognised artistic form and as ... tell of something which has happened . But it is one of the hardest things in the world to begin so effectively that ...
Contents
READING MAKETH A FULL MAN by Geoffrey Crump M | 15 |
A MIRROR HELD UP TO LIFE | 24 |
TOM JONES IN TROUBLE Henry Fielding | 59 |
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