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... stories I had conceived in the South Seas . I had not written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to ...
... stories I had conceived in the South Seas . I had not written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to ...
Page 208
... short stories must write stories like Chekhov . Several writ- ers transplanted Russian melancholy , Russian mysti- cism , Russian fecklessness , Russian despair , Russian futility , Russian infirmity of purpose , to Surrey or Michigan ...
... short stories must write stories like Chekhov . Several writ- ers transplanted Russian melancholy , Russian mysti- cism , Russian fecklessness , Russian despair , Russian futility , Russian infirmity of purpose , to Surrey or Michigan ...
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... 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 miming out of which drama arose . That it exists ...
... 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 miming out of which drama arose . That it exists ...
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