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Short Story The short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and
neglected : one or two specimens , at least , are to be found in any self -
respecting intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly , yet no one seems very
interested in the ...
Short Story The short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and
neglected : one or two specimens , at least , are to be found in any self -
respecting intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly , yet no one seems very
interested in the ...
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I admire Mr Herlihy : he is a superb stylist , as his longer fiction has already made
plain ; but in his stories everything is liable to be consumed by style . In the
parallel story by Paul Bowles a somewhat confused maniac devises a scheme for
...
I admire Mr Herlihy : he is a superb stylist , as his longer fiction has already made
plain ; but in his stories everything is liable to be consumed by style . In the
parallel story by Paul Bowles a somewhat confused maniac devises a scheme for
...
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short stories ; still one must insist on his extreme verbal skill , while finding what
he does with it very limited and ... who is very competent , but who relies heavily
on the short - story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material . At
least ...
short stories ; still one must insist on his extreme verbal skill , while finding what
he does with it very limited and ... who is very competent , but who relies heavily
on the short - story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material . At
least ...
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