The Short-storyAllyn and Bacon, 1916 - 238 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... present day dawned and with it what we call the short - story . The short - story- Prof. Brander Matthews has suggested the hyphen to differentiate it from the story which is merely short and to indicate that it is a new species 1 ...
... present day dawned and with it what we call the short - story . The short - story- Prof. Brander Matthews has suggested the hyphen to differentiate it from the story which is merely short and to indicate that it is a new species 1 ...
الصفحة xiv
... present the humor so peculiarly an American trait . Local color had its ex- ponents in George W. Cable , who presented Louisiana ; " Charles Egbert Craddock " ( Miss M. N. Murfree ) , who wrote of Tennessee ; Thomas Nelson Page , who ...
... present the humor so peculiarly an American trait . Local color had its ex- ponents in George W. Cable , who presented Louisiana ; " Charles Egbert Craddock " ( Miss M. N. Murfree ) , who wrote of Tennessee ; Thomas Nelson Page , who ...
الصفحة xvii
... presents a series of events in the order of time . Events or action presuppose actors , or characters as they are generally called , and a place where the action may take place ; like- wise time and circumstances within which the actors ...
... presents a series of events in the order of time . Events or action presuppose actors , or characters as they are generally called , and a place where the action may take place ; like- wise time and circumstances within which the actors ...
الصفحة 22
... dashed to pieces , and the stream made its way to the Hudson , and continues to flow to the present day ; being the identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters - kill . 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE THE GOLD BUG " What ho ! 22 Washington Irving.
... dashed to pieces , and the stream made its way to the Hudson , and continues to flow to the present day ; being the identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters - kill . 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE THE GOLD BUG " What ho ! 22 Washington Irving.
الصفحة 25
... present day . Upon reaching the hut I rapped , as was my custom ; and , getting no reply , sought for the key where I knew it was secreted , unlocked the door , and went in . A fine fire was blazing upon the hearth . It was a novelty ...
... present day . Upon reaching the hut I rapped , as was my custom ; and , getting no reply , sought for the key where I knew it was secreted , unlocked the door , and went in . A fine fire was blazing upon the hearth . It was a novelty ...
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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.