Word: fictions
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...that sells and sells and sells. After all, the element of luck has not played a large part in Miss Ferber's career. It was not luck that sold her very first story. It was simply that she was a good reporter, who had turned her reportorial experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down, was her initial attempt at fiction and, if you will turn to it, you'll find that it's a good story still. She is an honest workman. She respects...
...years later, little Herbert was shipped to London, where he attended the City of London School and was early taught "to fend for himself." This incident has given rise to the fiction that he was penniless. His allowance was extremely small, 'because his family believed in young men making their fortunes unaided, but his father was comfortably off and the maternal grand folks were rich...
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...abstract of Howells' 40 works of fiction shows that he never wrote of adultery or seduction and only once each of divorce and crime. Politics, religion, science, mechanics, bodily exploits or collisions were also eschewed. The themes were love, "treated with that vividness in innocence and ardor in purity which seem, in literature and life, to be the reward for abstinence from its distempers"; travel, literature and art, ethics, metaphysics (shyly), "the mysticism of psychology" and social problems...
...Golden Book of Venice, was the official list of the Venetian nobility, who alone could vote or hold office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats." This Golden Book, then, was for a literary aristocracy, "not of birth, but of performance." It was a new monthly anthology of classic fiction, the sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary...