Studying the Short-story: Sixteen Short-story Classics, with Introductions, Notes and a New Laboratory Study Method for Individual Reading and Use in Colleges and SchoolsHinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Incorporated, 1918 - 440 strani |
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Ameera asked Bell Bill Brander Matthews Bret Harte character child CLIMAX CONTRIBUTORY Coppée cried crisis Daudet dead door Dupin Edgar Allan Poe emotion Eppie eyes face father fear feeling fiction Fortunato François Coppée French Gianetto hand Hawthorne head heard heart Holden humor Jean François Kipling laughed letter Lisbeth literary live looked Magazine Markheim Master Masterpieces Mateo Mateo Falcone Maupassant ment Mérimée mind minister mother Nathaniel Hawthorne never night Note novel Oakhurst Old Maid Piney Pir Khan PLOT INCIDENT poet Poker Flat Prefect Prosper Mérimée Purloined Letter replied Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling Sam'l Sanders seemed short short-story smile Stevenson stood story strange street T'nowhead Tabary tell thing thou thought tion tone Tota turned Usher Villon voice W. W. Jacobs window woman words Writing the Short-Story
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Stran 336 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate ! ) And, round about his home, the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Stran 333 - ... her brother told me at night with inexpressible agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer ; and I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain, that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more.
Stran 296 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents ; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
Stran 80 - Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect as he gave a long, steady and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I will tell you in a few words; but, before I begin, let me caution you that this is an affair demanding the greatest secrecy, and that I should most probably lose the position I now hold, were it known that I confided it to any one." "Proceed," said I. "Or not,
Stran 84 - that although the letter may be in possession of the minister, as it unquestionably is, he may have concealed it elsewhere than upon his own premises?" "This is barely possible,
Stran 336 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow; (This, all this, was in the olden Time, long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Stran 71 - I seem to remember having been told that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew.
Stran 103 - ... obtained by the prefect, that it was not hidden within the limits of that dignitary's ordinary search, the more satisfied I became that, to conceal this letter, the minister had resorted to the comprehensive and sagacious expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all.
Stran 261 - ... characters. I regret to say that some of these were ladies. It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment.
Stran 261 - It had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen. It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it. A secret committee had determined to rid the town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard of two men who were then hanging from the boughs of a sycamore in the gulch, and temporarily in the banishment of certain other objectionable characters.