TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chase,Mary Ellen
AU  - Del Plaine,Frances Kelley
TI  - The art of narration
AV  - PE 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
N1  - "This is a companion volume to The art of description, by Marjorie H. Nicolson."; Release date is 2026-04-11; Branka P and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; New York: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1926
N2  - "The art of narration" by Mary Ellen Chase and Frances Kelley Del Plaine is a college composition textbook and anthology written in the early 20th century. It presents guidance and curated models across a wide range of narrative forms to help students analyze, imitate, and practice narration beyond the short story, emphasizing readable, current examples alongside a few classics.

The opening of the volume sets the aim and method: the Preface and Foreword argue for expanding college instruction past short stories, note the difficulty of permissions, and promise varied, engaging models for twelve narrative types; the Contents maps that breadth. Chapter I defines expository narrative as storytelling used to explain, offers practical tips (choose action-rich subjects, keep details clear and human), and then illustrates the method with four pieces: a vivid life cycle of a salmon that teaches biology through a single fish’s journey; a richly detailed account of a medieval wedding that reveals custom and ceremony; a day-in-the-life portrait of an Oxford undergraduate that explains routines, rules, and social life; and the peasant Bodo’s world under Charlemagne, using one family’s day to convey work, belief, and festivity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/artofnarration0000chas
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78424
ER  -