Littell's Living Age, Volume 266Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1910 |
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Page 607
... story , like a performance on the violin , must be perfect to be endurable . There is no middle way ; for just as the violin , of all instru- ments , betrays most ruthlessly the un- skilled performer , so the short story , of all ...
... story , like a performance on the violin , must be perfect to be endurable . There is no middle way ; for just as the violin , of all instru- ments , betrays most ruthlessly the un- skilled performer , so the short story , of all ...
Page 609
... story in the language . Its claims are certainly considerable , but it is well to remember that there were brave men before Agamemnon . For a great master of the English conte we may go back a good deal further than Edgar Allan Poe ...
... story in the language . Its claims are certainly considerable , but it is well to remember that there were brave men before Agamemnon . For a great master of the English conte we may go back a good deal further than Edgar Allan Poe ...
Page 610
... stories are condemned elsewhere as " slight , " be- cause the judge knows not the real virtue and strength of a body that is spiritual . This is the only body that matters in the short story . Incident may be as powerful and thrilling ...
... stories are condemned elsewhere as " slight , " be- cause the judge knows not the real virtue and strength of a body that is spiritual . This is the only body that matters in the short story . Incident may be as powerful and thrilling ...
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