The Collected Works, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

Bierce, Ambrose

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ISBN 10: 1451008309 ISBN 13: 9781451008302

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2012

Riassunto

Excerpt from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 10: The Opinionator

The novel is a snow plant; it has no root in the permanent soil of literature, and does not long hold its place. It is of the lowest form of imagination - imagination chained to the perch Of probability. What wonder that in this unnatural captivity it pines and dies? The novelist is, after all, but a reporter Of a larger growth. True, he invents his facts (which the reporter of the newspaper is known never to do) and his characters; but, having them in hand, what can he do? His chains are heavier than himself. The line that bounds his little Dutch garden of prob ability, separating it from the golden realm of art - the sun and shadow land of fancy is to him a dead-line. Let him transgress it at his peril.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1451008309
• ISBN 13: 9781451008302
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 390