| mark twain - 1897 - 450 páginas
...itself out into a book. Much the same thing happened with " Pudd'nhead Wilson." I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself...a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it,—a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a great deal %vorse was, that it was not one story,... | |
| Van Wyck Brooks - 1920 - 290 páginas
...the Siamese Twins and had meant to write an extravagant farce about them; but, he adds, "the story changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was...along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance." Eventually, he realized that it was "not one story but two stories tangled together" that he was trying... | |
| Helmbrecht Breinig - 1984 - 436 páginas
...quite a different one — Much the same thing happened with "Pudd'nhead Wilson." I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself...a tragedy while I was going along with it - a most embarassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories... | |
| Mark Twain - 1969 - 340 páginas
...rights. Twain whimsically describes how he followed the consequences of these developments. The tale 'changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it,' he said, and so 'I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other one - a kind of literary... | |
| Susan Gillman, Forrest G. Robinson - 1990 - 282 páginas
...in the preface that connects Pudd'nhead Wilson to Those Extraordinary Twins (the Siamese twin tale "changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it" and other, new characters began "taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the... | |
| Victor A. Doyno, Victor Doyno - 1992 - 296 páginas
...spread itself out into a book. Much the same thing happened with Pudd'nhead Wilson. I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself...turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance. Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debate: That is the issue that will continue in this country when these... | |
| Stuart Hutchinson - 1994 - 144 páginas
...Extraordinary Twins". In the Preface to this story. Twain reveals that during its transformation the story "changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it". What the tragedy is he does not say, though it seems it must be associated with the three new characters... | |
| Lawrence Howe - 1998 - 286 páginas
...slave into an aristocrat and a farce into a tragedy. This unplanned alteration was, Twain tells us, "a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a...turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance" (119). Thus, what started as a topic - two people tangled together who obstruct and interrupt each... | |
| Peter Messent - 2007
...needs comment - its 'jackleg' nature (311). Originally, Twain wrote, the novel on which he was working 'changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it'. As this happened, he realised that what he had in front of him was 'not one story, but two stories... | |
| John Bird - 2007 - 268 páginas
...(PWET, 119). He tells how what he was writing "changed itself from a farce to a tragedy," that he found that "it was not one story, but two stories tangled together," and then, in an arresting and revealing metaphor, he says, "I pulled one of the stories out by the roots,... | |
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