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Page 49
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 65
... novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is tiresome . It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that , and atmosphere is ...
... novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is tiresome . It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that , and atmosphere is ...
Page 79
... 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 unbecomingly 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 unbecomingly businesslike in a young author . It suggests a matter - of - fact turn of mind ...
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