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 devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to most of us ) ...
... dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to most of us ) ...
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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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