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... interest the -- public in the lower classes . Novels and plays that dealt with them were very generally considered sor- did . It will be curious to see if now that these classes have acquired political power the public at large will ...
... interest the -- public in the lower classes . Novels and plays that dealt with them were very generally considered sor- did . It will be curious to see if now that these classes have acquired political power the public at large will ...
Page 124
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
Page 222
... interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the mood he ...
... interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the mood he ...
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