The Advance of the American Short StoryDodd, Mead, 1923 - 302 lappuses |
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32. lappuse
... humor which saved him from their excesses , and his sense of propor- tion and balance which led him to fill in what they more or less entirely neglected . It is true that the plots of his two best short stories are rather tenuous , but ...
... humor which saved him from their excesses , and his sense of propor- tion and balance which led him to fill in what they more or less entirely neglected . It is true that the plots of his two best short stories are rather tenuous , but ...
35. lappuse
... humor and a seeing eye , and three years later justified in a measure the promise of these sketches by his novel of the Revolution , Horse - Shoe Robinson , which still finds readers . The same tone of quiet urbanity caught from Irving ...
... humor and a seeing eye , and three years later justified in a measure the promise of these sketches by his novel of the Revolution , Horse - Shoe Robinson , which still finds readers . The same tone of quiet urbanity caught from Irving ...
37. lappuse
... Humorous Short Stories offer the reader an opportunity to form his own judgment . One might find worse reading upon a rainy day . It must be confessed that a prolonged study of these five writers would be a dreary task , but there is ...
... Humorous Short Stories offer the reader an opportunity to form his own judgment . One might find worse reading upon a rainy day . It must be confessed that a prolonged study of these five writers would be a dreary task , but there is ...
73. lappuse
... humor , but humor is a social gift , and great conquerors are lonely men . His poetry does not concern us here , nor does his short novel , The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym . Neither have I the space to discuss his stories in their ...
... humor , but humor is a social gift , and great conquerors are lonely men . His poetry does not concern us here , nor does his short novel , The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym . Neither have I the space to discuss his stories in their ...
81. lappuse
... humor is at once ap- parent to the reader . Humor does not flower in a graveyard , and Arthur Ransome has pointed out that " his attempts to be funny are like hang- man's jokes . " 1 Poe's sense of the incongruous , which was genuine ...
... humor is at once ap- parent to the reader . Humor does not flower in a graveyard , and Arthur Ransome has pointed out that " his attempts to be funny are like hang- man's jokes . " 1 Poe's sense of the incongruous , which was genuine ...
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