Word: fictions
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...Fiction is represented by a further installment of Henry James' absorbing serial, The Old Things; a short story of Alabama life, The Price of a Cow, by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Bellamy, and The Whirligig of Fortune, an incident of the French Commune, by T. Russell Sullivan...
...rise of its poetry. Among the peculiarities of Arabic poetry is a law which requires writers to begin all kinds of poems with praise of his sweetheart. Arabian histories are very tiresome, for every writer begins his history with the beginning of the world. The language is rich in fiction and the "Thousand and One Nights" is the greatest story book in the world...
...judged by his heroes and heroines, who are for the most part filled with sawdust rather than blood. Nor are his large and moving pictures of history and famous personages of the past, picturesque and effective though they usually are, to be accounted his most important contribution to fiction. This is found in Edie Ochiltre, Meg Dods, Nantyswart, and the hundred and one characters of low life which Scott represented so truly and so completely. Another novelist in the goodly company of this country library was Dickens, in the first American edition-that edition of tall black volumes of double...
...beginning a discussion last evening of Certain Relations of Shakespeare to Our Own Time, Mr. Copeland spoke of the overwhelming predominance in almost every form of art of what we have agreed to call realism. In fiction for one art, notwithstanding the romantic revival under the leadership of Stevenson, by far the larger number of prose master pieces have been of realistic tone and temper. Prose has long since crowded verse out of the drama and all the resources of scenery, stage carpentry, costumes, and the actor's art have been used to realize-if one may so speak-even...
...Hawthorne's Puritanism in its effect upon his fiction...