Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer

CHAPTER V. THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP 345-394

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I. THE MORAL STORY--Differentiated from the symbolic-didactic group--Great authors who have written this type: Hawthorne, Johnson, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Cervantes--What to put in and what to leave out--Examples 345

II. THE PEDAGOGICAL NARRATIVE--Definition--Some famous pedagogical books--Froebel--Examples 361

III. THE STORY OF PRESENT DAY REALISM--What realism is--The realistic school--Suggestions on characters to treat--Examples 370