Porter Emerson Browne

A Fool There Was (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: "To begin a story of this kind at the beginning is hard; for when the beginning may have been, no man knows. Perhaps it was a hundred years ago-perhaps a thousand-perhaps ten thousand; and it may well be, yet longer ago, even, then that. Yet it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors; and from these he had inherited cleanness of body and of soul, clearness of eye and of head. They had given him all that lay in their power to give, had these honest, impassive Dutchmen and-women-these broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped English; they had amalgamated for him their virtues, and they had eradicated for him their vices; they had cultivated for him those things of theirs that it were well to cultivate; and they had plucked ruthlessly from the gardens of heredity the weeds and tares that might have grown to check his growth. And, doing this, they had died, one after another, knowing not what they had done-knowing not why they had done it-knowing not what the result would be-doing that which they did because it was in them to do it; and for no other reason save that. For so it is of this world.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 111
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965378391
• Artikelnr.: 58566178

Autorenporträt

Porter Emerson Browne, an American writer, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He wrote several plays, including A Fool There Was (1909), which was made for film twice, in 1915 and 1922; The Spendthrift (1910); Chains (1912); and The Bad Man (1920), which was filmed three times, in 1923, 1930, and 1941. Mabel Normand's dramatic vehicle Joan of Plattsburg (1918) was also based on a Browne play. The historian John Toland wrote a love portrait of Browne in his book. Toland, who was barely a teenager at the time, wanted to be a writer and was intrigued when Browne moved in with his family. Most importantly, Browne taught him how to become a writer. He took the young Toland into his study and showed him a little stage next to his typewriter. Small figurines stood on stage. "I just watch them and let them do everything they have to do," Toland was quoted as saying. "Then I type down everything they say." When Toland wrote his autobiography in his eighties, after writing numerous novels, he remembered Browne's example. He thanked Browne with teaching him how to listen when interviewing horrible individuals from history without passing judgment. Toland, like Browne, offered structure and context before recording anything they said.