The Short-story |
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الصفحة ix
MANKIND has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them . ... Before him
was his prototype the man with the gift of telling stories over the fire at night ,
perhaps at the mouth of a The Greeks , who ever loved to hear some new thing ,
were ...
MANKIND has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them . ... Before him
was his prototype the man with the gift of telling stories over the fire at night ,
perhaps at the mouth of a The Greeks , who ever loved to hear some new thing ,
were ...
الصفحة x
In the fullness of time story - telling became an art . Similar stories are to be found
in many different literatures because human nature is fundamentally the same
the world over ; that is , people are swayed by the same mo . tives , such as love ...
In the fullness of time story - telling became an art . Similar stories are to be found
in many different literatures because human nature is fundamentally the same
the world over ; that is , people are swayed by the same mo . tives , such as love ...
الصفحة xii
... unblemished because undisturbed ; all this is an end mattainable by th novel . ”
It istok ? } notext hat Poe roused interest in his eifert by the method susi ense , sat
is hy kolding back : the solurion of the } P plot , by puiting off telling what the xii ...
... unblemished because undisturbed ; all this is an end mattainable by th novel . ”
It istok ? } notext hat Poe roused interest in his eifert by the method susi ense , sat
is hy kolding back : the solurion of the } P plot , by puiting off telling what the xii ...
الصفحة xiii
P plot , by puiting off telling what the reader wants to know , though he continually
aggravates the desire to know by iconstant hints , the full significance of which is
only realized when the story is done . His stories are of two main classes : what ...
P plot , by puiting off telling what the reader wants to know , though he continually
aggravates the desire to know by iconstant hints , the full significance of which is
only realized when the story is done . His stories are of two main classes : what ...
الصفحة xxviii
There have been various opinions as to the literary character of his work , and , to
tell the truth , it is not a whit better than it should be . Its chief merit is its
scrupulous accuracy , which indeed was a little questioned on its first
appearance , but ...
There have been various opinions as to the literary character of his work , and , to
tell the truth , it is not a whit better than it should be . Its chief merit is its
scrupulous accuracy , which indeed was a little questioned on its first
appearance , but ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
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.
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | The Short-story Academy classics |
| المساهم | William Patterson Atkinson |
| الناشر | Allyn and Bacon, 1916 |
| أصلي من | جامعة كاليفورنيا |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 6 كانون الأول (ديسمبر) 2007 |
| عدد الصفحات | 238 من الصفحات |
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