2007-10-22 17:53:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow author, defends the virtue of a dead woman, and tries to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors
2007-10-22 17:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twain gives step by step instructions on how to tell a humorous story using the Golden Arm story from folklore.
You can read the essay online.
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/twain.html
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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.
Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.
Pax - C
2007-10-22 18:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i become youthful, very youthful. Seven years previous at a wager. ----- and that i lost song of time and fell noisily snoring on the floor... no, heavily, your character isn't equipped up nicely.. the photos you attempt to create are obscure... i fail to make certain the element of the redunduncies... it lacks something that's needed in a tale - greater beneficial than the grammar, greater beneficial than the eloquence, greater beneficial than the plot, greater beneficial than the characters, it desires thoughts... and somewhat frankly the draft right here would not have any of those i discussed above... and, nicely, there is not plenty to get involved approximately - by way of fact a tale isn't unfolding! you like a well-known financial disaster that unfolds an exciting tale... sorry guy, yet i gotta be actual greater useful success next time guy.
2016-11-09 06:24:31 · answer #3 · answered by rimpel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About folks doing their own homework rather than getting others on Yahoo! Answers to do it for them.
2007-10-22 17:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can read the title, you can determine what the essay is about.
2007-10-23 00:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you just read the story, it's not as if it will take all night, unless you're illiterate.
2007-10-22 18:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by Mycroft 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋