The art of narration

_Selma Lagerlöf_ In Nazareth 122 _William Canton_ The Song of the Minster 127 _Anatole France_ Juggler to Our-Lady 132 _James Stevens_ Paul Bunyon 139 _Selma Lagerlöf_ The Legen...

_Eleanor Farjeon_ The King’s Barn 179 _Oscar Wilde_ The Happy Prince 211 _Olive Schreiner_ Truth 222 _The Contributor’s Club_, “The Atlantic Monthly” A Parable for Philanthropis...

Expository narrative tells a story not primarily for the sake of the story, but for the sake of the information conveyed to the reader. It is really narration turned to serve th...

Incident is at once the earliest and the commonest material for narration which we encounter in our own experience. An average life furnishes only a few great adventures, impres...

Macaulay in the introduction to his essay on Hallam deplores the fact that the writers of history of his day, exact and accurate though they may be, “present no scene to the ima...

As in historical narrative some incident, or series of connecting incidents, is told in such a way that the details are impressed vividly upon the imagination, so in historical...

The derivations of the words _tale_ and _legend_ hold within themselves several of the features that distinguish the one from the other. A tale (As. _talu_, speech) means litera...

Lily, the Moon, the Sun, and the closed Garden which is spoken of in the Canticle, the Gate of Heaven and the Seat of God, and there were also several images of the Virgin.

In this section are included several types of stories which, though different in certain particulars, are clearly related to one another. In general, they are fictitious stories...

It is true that, strictly speaking, all biography is narrative; but it is also true that in much biography the best narrative is lacking. Thus, in calling this chapter Biographi...

Reminiscent narrative is the grown-up prototype of the nursery favorite, “A story about the time when you were about my size.” Many people have found pleasure in writing their r...

She talked most of all with Mrs. Catlin, the woman who did fine needlework and used to make my grandfather’s shirts. She was a caretaker in one of the great big houses in Ormond...

Of all forms of narrative the account of adventure is, it is safe to say, the very oldest. It dates back, indeed, to the childhood of all races. Not only was it written on Egypt...

For more than six hundred years, Marco Polo has been a name to conjure with, but if you will turn to a biographical dictionary you will find only the dates of his birth and deat...

The phrase “a mere sketch,” which one often encounters, seems to indicate that the sketch is an inferior and undesirable type of writing. This expression probably reflects the g...

Stories are sometimes called _Artistic Narrative_ in contrast to the other and various kinds illustrated in the preceding chapters, all of which are known as _Informational Narr...