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الصفحة v
... story as Narration IV . Representative Short - stories V. Bibliography WASHINGTON IRVING : Rip Van Winkle ( 1820 ) EDGAR ALLAN POE : The Gold Bug ( 1842 ) The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ) PAGE vii ix xvi • xvii xxi XXV 1 • 23 69 93 112 ...
... story as Narration IV . Representative Short - stories V. Bibliography WASHINGTON IRVING : Rip Van Winkle ( 1820 ) EDGAR ALLAN POE : The Gold Bug ( 1842 ) The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ) PAGE vii ix xvi • xvii xxi XXV 1 • 23 69 93 112 ...
الصفحة ix
... stories over the fire at night , perhaps at the mouth of a cave . The Greeks , who ever loved to hear some new thing , were merely typical of the ready listeners . - In the course of time the story passed through many forms and many ...
... stories over the fire at night , perhaps at the mouth of a cave . The Greeks , who ever loved to hear some new thing , were merely typical of the ready listeners . - In the course of time the story passed through many forms and many ...
الصفحة x
... story - telling became an art . Similar stories are to be found in many different litera- tures because human nature ... story . The short - story- Prof. Brander Matthews has suggested the hyphen to differentiate it from the story which ...
... story - telling became an art . Similar stories are to be found in many different litera- tures because human nature ... story . The short - story- Prof. Brander Matthews has suggested the hyphen to differentiate it from the story which ...
الصفحة xi
... story is to produce a single narrative effect with the greatest economy of means that is consistent with the utmost emphasis . " 1 However , years before , in 1842 , in his celebrated review of Hawthorne's Tales 2 Edgar Allan Poe had ...
... story is to produce a single narrative effect with the greatest economy of means that is consistent with the utmost emphasis . " 1 However , years before , in 1842 , in his celebrated review of Hawthorne's Tales 2 Edgar Allan Poe had ...
الصفحة xiii
... story is done . His stories are of two main classes : what have been called stories of " impressionistic terror , " that is , stories of great fear induced in a character by a mass of rather vague and unusual incidents , such as The ...
... story is done . His stories are of two main classes : what have been called stories of " impressionistic terror , " that is , stories of great fear induced in a character by a mass of rather vague and unusual incidents , such as The ...
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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...