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Excerpt from Miss. Lulu Bett, an American Comedy of Manners
Even the old-home talk of our rural dramas, the line, Land sakes, ain''t them pies done yet? With which the first act opens, has become, in Spite of its affectation of naturalness, so theatrical that whenever we hear a genuine housewife say it in a real kitchen we suspect her of trying to talk like an actress.
Into this babel of artificial dialogue came Miss Lulu Bett bearing the revolutionary banner of banality. And under this banner march ninety-nine one-hundredths of American conversationalists. First in her book, and then in her play, Zona Gale discarded the ideal held by writers since Plutarch that their characters must say something unusual, and gave us Dwight Herbert Deacon to say the gorgeously conventional thing with epoch-making dullness.
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Even the old-home talk of our rural dramas, the line, Land sakes, ain''t them pies done yet? With which the first act opens, has become, in Spite of its affectation of naturalness, so theatrical that whenever we hear a genuine housewife say it in a real kitchen we suspect her of trying to talk like an actress.
Into this babel of artificial dialogue came Miss Lulu Bett bearing the revolutionary banner of banality. And under this banner march ninety-nine one-hundredths of American conversationalists. First in her book, and then in her play, Zona Gale discarded the ideal held by writers since Plutarch that their characters must say something unusual, and gave us Dwight Herbert Deacon to say the gorgeously conventional thing with epoch-making dullness.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Zona Gale
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ISBN - 9780265210918
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 201
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ISBN - 9781330945056
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