 After all these preliminary studies there comes the most important point of all—the story. There is a school which pretends that there is no need for a story : all the stories, they say, have been told already; there is no more room for invention :...  The Pen and the Book - Seite 97von Sir Walter Besant - 1899 - 347 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Walter Besant - 1884 - 54 Seiten
...young, their imaginations strong, and their personal experiences as yet not wasted in foolish failures. After all these preliminary studies there comes the...although it may be but a puny bantling. Fiction without adventure—a drama without a plot—a novel without surprises—the thing is_asjmpossihle as life... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1884 - 60 Seiten
...foolish failures. After all these preliminary studies there comes the most important point of all—the story. There is a school which pretends that there...although it may be but a puny bantling. Fiction without adventure—a drama without a plot—a novel without surprises—the thing is as impossible as life... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1887 - 638 Seiten
...young, their imaginations strong, and their personal experiences as yet not wasted in foolish failures. After all these preliminary studies there comes the...novel which shall not contain a story, although it nay be but a puny bantling. Fiction without adventure — a drama without a plot — a novel without... | |
 | 1891 - 718 Seiten
...deals with real' living men and women ; but then comes the story. " The story," Mr. Besant says, " is everything. I cannot conceive of a world going...the excitement of wondering what will happen next. A drama without a plot — a novel without surprises — the thing is as impossible as life without... | |
 | 1891 - 680 Seiten
...deals with real' living men and women ; but then comes the story. " The story," Mr. Besant says, " is everything. I cannot conceive of a world going...the excitement of wondering what will happen next. A drama without a plot — a novel without surprises — the thing is as impossible as life without... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1908 - 308 Seiten
...knife-grinder, to explain that there is no story left at all to tell. Why, the story is everything. I can not conceive of a world going on at all without stories,...a story, although it may be but a puny bantling." I have quoted Mr. Besant thus much at length because even in his energy he implies that this point... | |
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