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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Page 76
... nature of his readers and they will lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this idiosyncrasy does not appeal . They have no patience ...
... nature of his readers and they will lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this idiosyncrasy does not appeal . They have no patience ...
Page 77
... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Vol- taire's Candide . It would be ...
... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Vol- taire's Candide . It would be ...
Page 221
... nature a new convention . But that is by the way . It is a natural desire in the reader to want to know what happens to the people in whom his interest has been aroused and the plot is the means by which you gratify this desire . A good ...
... nature a new convention . But that is by the way . It is a natural desire in the reader to want to know what happens to the people in whom his interest has been aroused and the plot is the means by which you gratify this desire . A good ...
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