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Travelers Five Along Life's Highway

By Annie Fellows Johnston

2021-04-30 19:51:25

Of all the elements that go to make up a good story,—plot, verisimilitude, happy incident, local colour, excellent style,—none perhaps is more important than the touch of understanding sympathy. The writer must not only see his characters clearl ... Read more
Of all the elements that go to make up a good story,—plot, verisimilitude, happy incident, local colour, excellent style,—none perhaps is more important than the touch of understanding sympathy. The writer must not only see his characters clearly and draw them with a masterly hand; he must have the largeness of heart that can share in all the turbulent experience of the human spirit. His people must be set against the vast shifting background of destiny. He must show their dramatic relations, one to another, and the influence of life upon life; he must also show their profounder, more[vi] moving and mysterious, relations to fate and time and the infinite things. Less

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File size234.261 KB
Print pages82
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-9353292775
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Annie Fellows Johnston
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Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931) was an American author of children's fiction who wrote the popular The Little Colonel series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colon...

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