Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Couverture souple

Polti, Georges; Ray, Lucille

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1497972809 ISBN 13 : 9781497972803

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

FOREWORD
The prefaces of many books are more enduring than the letter-press they introduce. It is as if an author's after-thoughts more nearly express his real thoughts than his well-considered, neatly planned succession of chapters. The reason for this, though a natural one, came to me only as I read and re-read the proofs of "The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations": as an author's work is unrolled before him in the type of the galley-proofs, the first sight of the printed words induces a freshness of mind that is near relative to the fine frenzy of first conception; added to this mental freshness there is a maturity--for are not months .of thought behind the chapters of the work?-that makes the author's thoughts as grandparents with the enthusiasms of youth. In the prefaces, then, the authors find outlets to express their own reactions to their own thoughts.
I have been step-father to Miss Lucile Ray's translation of George Polti's book. My own vague notions of the text, gained

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1497972809
• ISBN 13: 9781497972803
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible