Prose Fiction

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“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)