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100 1 _aChase, Mary Ellen,
_d1887-1973
245 1 4 _aThe art of narration
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _a"This is a companion volume to The art of description, by Marjorie H. Nicolson."
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-11
508 _aBranka 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1926
653 _aEnglish prose literature
653 _aAmerican prose literature
653 _aNarration (Rhetoric)
700 1 _aDel Plaine, Frances Kelley,
_d1889-1958
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/artofnarration0000chas
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78424
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_d119144