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Page 69
... novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le ...
... novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le ...
Page 112
... novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction . The reader may think that this methodical fashion of going to work was unbecom- ingly businesslike in a young author . It suggests a matter - of - fact turn of mind ...
... novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction . The reader may think that this methodical fashion of going to work was unbecom- ingly businesslike in a young author . It suggests a matter - of - fact turn of mind ...
Page 220
... novelist is the essayist , and that the only perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and ...
... novelist is the essayist , and that the only perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and ...
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