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Streszczenie książki Współczesne eseje i opowiadania
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- 10 key ideas
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A plowman whistles for no audience, and from that small joy an editor builds a book of essays and tales.
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Współczesne eseje i opowiadania in short
Modern Essays and Stories teaches by example. Law first explains the essay as friendly talk that shows a person, then the short story as a brief tale aimed at one effect. The selections put those ideas to work, from a dog and a laundryman to a ghost wolf and a medieval prince.
What Współczesne eseje i opowiadania is about
Why does a plowman whistle as he works? Frederick Houk Law opens this anthology with that question. People whistle, sing and write essays for the pleasure of saying something, with no wish to teach anyone.
Modern Essays and Stories is a school collection that Law put together after the First World War. It begins with short guides to the essay and the short story, then offers about thirty selections, from familiar essays and portraits to satires, a legend and letters. The writers range from Chesterton and H. G. Wells to Theodore Roosevelt. Each piece ends with questions and a prompt for writing in the same manner.
Dla kogo. You will love this book if you enjoy short, friendly pieces, from dog stories to ghost tales, and like trying a writer's craft on your own subject.
The 10 key ideas
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An essay is friendly talk, not a lesson
Law begins with a picture. A plowman whistles over the field and a milkmaid sings, and neither wants an audience. They are busy and glad, and the gladness has to come out somewhere. Many fine English essays began the same way.
The modern essay, he says, was invented in France in 1571 by Michel de Montaigne, who read and wrote for nine years in the tower of his estate. Francis Bacon wrote more stiffly. Charles Lamb later brought back the warm personal voice.
A textbook covers everything a subject needs. An essay only touches the subject, comments and wanders. Law compares truth in an essay to gold in river sand. It may sparkle there, but the river does not exist to produce it.
Listen to an essay as you would to a friend. An essay is a person talking, and its charm is the person.
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Small things deserve a loving look
Robert Palfrey Utter's The Pup-Dog is Law's first sample.
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Portraits win us through small details
Robert L. Duffus writes about Ah Sing, the laundryman who comes on Tuesdays for the washing and on Saturdays to bring it back.
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Looking closely makes ordinary things precious
Georges Duhamel, a French army surgeon, writes that discovery is a key that opens every door.
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Read with meditation and a picturing mind
Hamilton Wright Mabie asks how Shakespeare read.
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A ghost story is told by suggestion alone
Algernon Blackwood's Running Wolf is the anthology's legendary story.
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Short lives and visits fill the biographical essays
Anzia Yezierska's How I Found America begins in a village hut in Russia, where fear of the Cossack fills the air.
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Old tales move by clear turns of fortune
George Philip Krapp retells Havelok the Dane, an English tale about a thousand years old.
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Humor grows from character and small mistakes
Frederick Lewis Allen's Politics Up to Date is a dialogue.
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Opinion pieces and letters teach the craft
Law's guide to the short story rests on Edgar Allan Poe, who set out five principles.
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What is Modern Essays and Stories about?
It is a school anthology edited by Frederick Houk Law. It offers short guides to the essay and the short story, then about thirty selections by early twentieth-century writers, each followed by questions and a writing exercise.
Which writers appear in Modern Essays and Stories?
The authors include Gilbert K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Van Dyke, Algernon Blackwood, Anzia Yezierska, Agnes Repplier, Brander Matthews and William Rose Benét, along with many others.
What is a familiar essay?
Law describes it as friendly talk on any subject that interests the writer, however small. It wanders, uses anecdotes, and shows the writer's personality more than it explains the subject.
Is Modern Essays and Stories easy to read?
Most pieces are brief, written in plain, lively language, and can be enjoyed one at a time. Dogs, ghosts, journeys and humor make the entry points welcoming, and the questions help you notice how each piece works.
What is the main message of the book?
Law's message is that good writing starts with real interest and honest voice. The essays and tales show how to write about what you know and love, and each exercise invites you to try.
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Modern Essays and Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/modern-essays-and-stories.
Modern essays and stories. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/modern-essays-and-stories
Modern Essays and Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/modern-essays-and-stories.
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