TY  - JOUR
AB  - AS the state of the world grows more depressing, I find that my taste in literature becomes lighter. I have developed a nervous horror of being bored, as well as a feverish anxiety to be distracted, and so I now subject my fiction to a pre‐reading test. When I am about to choose a novel, I first turn over the pages to see if there is plenty of dialogue and not too many long paragraphs of descriptive matter; once this peculiar criterion of mine is satisfied, I begin reading and if the dialogue is not “literary talk” but is true to life, amusing and character revealing, I then decide to buy, borrow or hire the book.
VL  - 6
IS  - 8
SN  - 0024-2535
DO  - 10.1108/eb012051
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012051
AU  - BRUNEL ADRIAN
PY  - 1938
Y1  - 1938/01/01
TI  - Stories in Dialogue
T2  - Library Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 356
EP  - 358
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -