London Films - Couverture rigide

W D Howells, Howells; W D Howells

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421844931 ISBN 13 : 9781421844930

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

Whoever carries a mental kodak with him (as I suspect I was in the habit of doing long before I knew it) must be aware of the uncertain value of the different exposures. This can be determined only by the process of developing, which requires a dark room and other apparatus not always at hand; and so much depends upon the process that it might be well if it could always be left to some one who makes a specialty of it, as in the case of the real amateur photographer. Then one's faulty impressions might be so treated as to yield a pictorial result of interest, or frankly thrown away if they showed hopeless to the instructed eye. Otherwise, one must do one's own developing, and trust the result, whatever it is, to the imaginative kindness of the reader, who will surely, if he is the right sort of reader, be able to sharpen the blurred details, to soften the harsh lights, and blend the shadows in a subordination giving due relief to the best meaning of the print. This is what I fancy myself to be doing now, and if any one shall say that my little pictures are superficial, I shall not be able to gainsay him. I can only answer that most pictures represent the surfaces of things;

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Frontispiece FLEET STREET AND ST. DUNSTAN SCHURCH Facing p. 12 THE CARRIAGES DRAWN UP BESIDE THE SACRED CLOSE .18 SUNDAY AFTERNOON, HYDE PARK 24 ROTTEN ROW 38 A BLOCK IN THE STRAND 48 ST. PAULS CATHEDRAL 80 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 86 THE HORSE GUARDS, WHITEHALL 98 WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND CLOCK TOWER 160 A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE THAMES AT HENLEY .... 168 THE CROWD OF SIGHT-SEERS AT HENLEY 174 THE TOWER OF LONDON 184 ST. OLAVE S, TOOLEY STREET .186 LONDON BRIDGE 188 THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF ST. MAGNUS 190 THE EAST INDIA HOUSE OF CHARLES LAMBS TIME .. 192 CHURCH OF THE DUTCH REFUGEES 194 BOW-BELLS (ST. MARY-LE-BOW, CHEAPSIDE) 196 STAPLE INN, HOLBORN 214 CLIFFORDS INN HALL 216 ANCIENT CHURCH OF ST. MARTINS-IN-THE-FIELDS ...
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421844931
• ISBN 13: 9781421844930
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible