American Literary Essays1960 |
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... novelist . It was , I think , partly bad luck - the luck of the age , if you like- though it was no worse than Dante's luck and not so bad as Villon's , as Melville himself knew ; and it was partly that his work discovered for itself ...
... novelist . It was , I think , partly bad luck - the luck of the age , if you like- though it was no worse than Dante's luck and not so bad as Villon's , as Melville himself knew ; and it was partly that his work discovered for itself ...
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... novelist is the slow accumulation of unconscious observation - absorption . The native expert's intentional observa- tion of manners , speech , character , and ways of life can have value , for the native knows what they mean without ...
... novelist is the slow accumulation of unconscious observation - absorption . The native expert's intentional observa- tion of manners , speech , character , and ways of life can have value , for the native knows what they mean without ...
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... novelist's process , " and we recall how in romances characters appear really to be given quantities rather than emerging and changing organisms responding to their circumstances as these themselves de- velop one out of another . For if ...
... novelist's process , " and we recall how in romances characters appear really to be given quantities rather than emerging and changing organisms responding to their circumstances as these themselves de- velop one out of another . For if ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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