The Short-storyAllyn and Bacon, 1916 - 238 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix
... course of time the story passed through many forms and many phases- the myth , e.g. The Labors of Hercules ; the legend , e.g. St. George and the Dragon ; the fairy tale , e.g. Cinderella ; the fable , e.g. The Fox and the Grapes ; the ...
... course of time the story passed through many forms and many phases- the myth , e.g. The Labors of Hercules ; the legend , e.g. St. George and the Dragon ; the fairy tale , e.g. Cinderella ; the fable , e.g. The Fox and the Grapes ; the ...
الصفحة xiv
... crossed to England and found in Robert Louis Stevenson an artist who could handle it with consummate skill . He passed it on a more finished and polished article than when he received it , because by a long course of self xiv Introduction.
... crossed to England and found in Robert Louis Stevenson an artist who could handle it with consummate skill . He passed it on a more finished and polished article than when he received it , because by a long course of self xiv Introduction.
الصفحة xv
... course of events , such as the climax of Lochinvar , or events that cannot occur . The latest stage in the development of the short - story is due to Rudyard Kipling , who has made it generally more terse , has filled it with interest ...
... course of events , such as the climax of Lochinvar , or events that cannot occur . The latest stage in the development of the short - story is due to Rudyard Kipling , who has made it generally more terse , has filled it with interest ...
الصفحة xviii
... eye the devel- opment of a story . Of course it must be distinctly under- Rising Action Propo- sition Entangle- ment Climax Reso- lution B Falling Action E Dénoue- ment stood that no story is the result of a mere xviii Introduction.
... eye the devel- opment of a story . Of course it must be distinctly under- Rising Action Propo- sition Entangle- ment Climax Reso- lution B Falling Action E Dénoue- ment stood that no story is the result of a mere xviii Introduction.
الصفحة 7
... course , with the reflection of a purple cloud , or the sail of a lagging bark , here and there sleep- ing on its glassy bosom , and at last losing itself in the blue highlands . On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain ...
... course , with the reflection of a purple cloud , or the sail of a lagging bark , here and there sleep- ing on its glassy bosom , and at last losing itself in the blue highlands . On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain ...
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Aminadab appeared asked Aylmer beetle birthmark Bret Harte characters cheek Colonel concealed Coppy cried Dame Van Winkle dark dealer death's-head Denis door Duchess Dupin Edgar Allan Poe eyes face fear feet fell felt figure fire Fort Moultrie Georgiana girl glance governors hand head heard heart honor Joliffe Jupiter Jupiter's knew Legrand letter limb looked Markheim massa matter mind Miss Allardyce Monsieur de Beaulieu Mother Shipton mountain never night Oakhurst observed old gentleman once parchment pause perhaps personage Piney Poker Flat poor Prefect Province House replied returned Rip Van Winkle Rudyard Kipling scarabæus secret seemed seen short-story silence Sir William Sire de Malétroit skull smile spirit stood story strange Sullivan's Island tell thing thought tion took tree truth turned Uncle Billy voice Wee Willie Winkie words young
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الصفحة 13 - ... roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed — "My very dog...
الصفحة 233 - 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 18 - Rip Van Winkle now! Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?" All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment, exclaimed, "Sure enough it is Rip Van Winkle — it is himself! Welcome home again, old neighbour — Why, where have you been these twenty long years?
الصفحة 13 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half -starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.
الصفحة 78 - I wouldn't mind giving my individual check for fifty thousand francs to any one who could obtain me that letter. The fact is, it is becoming of more and more importance every day; and the reward has been lately doubled. If it were trebled, however, I could do no more than I have done...
الصفحة 190 - ... listening to the man's last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set as a flint against mercy, I found it smiling with hope." "And do you, then, suppose me such a creature?
الصفحة 16 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder? why he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
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 71 - And what, after all, is the matter on hand?" I asked. "Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect, as he gave a long, steady, and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I will tell you...
الصفحة 112 - He had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion. His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.