The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first novel , he told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it direct- ness and an ...
... dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first novel , he told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it direct- ness and an ...
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... dialogue than I had been in the habit of using . I wrote my first full - length play in 1898 , my last in 1933. In that time I have seen dialogue change from the turgid , pedantic speech of Pinero , from the elegant artificiality of ...
... dialogue than I had been in the habit of using . I wrote my first full - length play in 1898 , my last in 1933. In that time I have seen dialogue change from the turgid , pedantic speech of Pinero , from the elegant artificiality of ...
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... dialogue is but a sort of spoken hieroglyph . He is insensibly led to choose as his characters persons who talk naturally in the way his audience have come to think natural and these inevitably are very simple and obvious . It has ...
... dialogue is but a sort of spoken hieroglyph . He is insensibly led to choose as his characters persons who talk naturally in the way his audience have come to think natural and these inevitably are very simple and obvious . It has ...
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