The Short-storyAllyn and Bacon, 1916 - 238 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... seen in Aristotle's statement that a story should have a beginning , a middle , and an end . Defini- tions were made and the elements named . In the full- ness of time story - telling became an art . Similar stories are to be found in ...
... seen in Aristotle's statement that a story should have a beginning , a middle , and an end . Defini- tions were made and the elements named . In the full- ness of time story - telling became an art . Similar stories are to be found in ...
الصفحة xiii
... seen , for example , in The Minister's Black Veil ( 1835 ) . 66 In 1868 was published Luck of Roaring Camp , by Bret Harte . In this story and those that immediately followed , the author advanced the development of the short - story ...
... seen , for example , in The Minister's Black Veil ( 1835 ) . 66 In 1868 was published Luck of Roaring Camp , by Bret Harte . In this story and those that immediately followed , the author advanced the development of the short - story ...
الصفحة 1
... seen away to the west of the river , swelling up to a noble height , and lording it over the surrounding country . Every change of season , every change of weather , indeed , every hour of the day , produces some change in the magical ...
... seen away to the west of the river , swelling up to a noble height , and lording it over the surrounding country . Every change of season , every change of weather , indeed , every hour of the day , produces some change in the magical ...
الصفحة 4
... seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels , equipped in a pair of his father's cast - off galligaskins , which he had much ado to hold up with one hand , as a fine lady does her train in bad weather . Rip Van Winkle , however ...
... seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels , equipped in a pair of his father's cast - off galligaskins , which he had much ado to hold up with one hand , as a fine lady does her train in bad weather . Rip Van Winkle , however ...
الصفحة 10
... seen the old man of the glen . He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning . The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes , and the eagle was wheeling aloft , and breasting the pure 66 mountain breeze . Surely ...
... seen the old man of the glen . He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning . The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes , and the eagle was wheeling aloft , and breasting the pure 66 mountain breeze . Surely ...
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30 cents appeared asked Aylmer beetle birthmark called character cheek Colonel concealed Coppy cried Dame Van Winkle dark dealer death's-head Denis door Duchess Dupin Edgar Allan Poe Edited Essay eyes face fear fell felt figure fire Georgiana girl governors hand Hawthorne head heard heart honor Joliffe Julius Cæsar Jupiter Jupiter's Kipling Legrand letter limb looked Malétroit Markheim massa matter mind Miss Allardyce Monsieur de Beaulieu Mother Shipton mountain Nathaniel Hawthorne never night Oakhurst observed old gentleman once paper parchment personage Piney Poems Poker Flat Prefect Price Province House replied returned Rip Van Winkle ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Rudyard Kipling scarabæus seemed seen short-story Sir William Sire skull smile spirit stood story strange Sullivan's Island tell thing thought tion took tree truth turned Uncle Billy village voice WASHINGTON IRVING Wee Willie Winkie wife words
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الصفحة 231 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 1 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
الصفحة 16 - He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows...
الصفحة 91 - is a desperate man and a man of nerve. His hotel, too, is not without attendants devoted to his interests. Had I made the wild attempt you suggest I might never have left the Ministerial presence alive. The good people of Paris might have heard of me no more. But I had an object apart from these considerations.
الصفحة xii - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
الصفحة 8 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
الصفحة 76 - That, of course; and when we had absolutely completed every particle of the furniture in this way, then we examined the house itself. We divided its entire surface into compartments, which we numbered, so that none might be missed; then we scrutinized each individual square inch throughout the premises, including the two houses immediately adjoining, with the microscope, as before.
الصفحة 39 - Did you say it was a dead limb, Jupiter?" cried Legrand in a quivering voice. "Yes, massa; him dead as de door-nail; done up for sartain ; done departed dis here life." "What in the name of heaven shall I do?
الصفحة 135 - ... town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard of two men who were then hanging from the boughs of a sycamore in the gulch, and temporarily in the banishment of certain other objectionable characters. I regret to say that some of these were ladies. It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment.
الصفحة 179 - ... was exceedingly faint, and showed dimly on the threshold of the shop. And yet, in that strip of doubtful brightness, did there not hang wavering a shadow? Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name. Markheim, smitten into ice, glanced at the dead man. But no ! he lay quite still ; he was fled away far beyond earshot of these blows...