The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A project of Project Gutenberg and the HTML Writers Guild.
Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.
ac.
uk.
Markup by Gerilyn Brander.
Feb 18 2000.
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more details view the source document.
The Art of Writing
Contents
I.
On Some Technical Elements Of Style In Literature
II.
The Morality Of The Profession Of Letters
III.
Books Which Have Influenced Me
IV.
A Note On Realism
V.
My First Book: TREASURE ISLAND
VI.
The Genesis Of the Master Of Ballantrae
VII.
Preface To the Master Of Ballantrae
Chapter I ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN
LITERATURE (1)
THERE is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of
any art.
All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we
perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their
emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys.
In a similar way,
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