Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400
was to be a story longenough to stand by itself. A broader experi-ence is needed to compose a full-grown novelthan to sketch a short story, and the greatnovelists have often essayed their first elaboratefictions when no longer young. Scott was morethan forty when he published the first of… … THE OLD MANSE, CONCORD. place, she exclaimed : Oh, then you can writeyour book! And when he asked what theywere to live on while he was writing this book,she showed him the money she had been savingup, week by week, out of their household ex-penses. That very afternoon he sat down andbegan to write…
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