This is an overstatement--but it is not a misstatement--of a principle of composition which is fundamentally sound in the writing of prose fiction, but which is fundamentally unsound in the writing of plays.
His talent lay in prose fiction, while his ambition drew him towards the stage.
With The Caxtons (1849) we find him entering upon a new period of prose fiction.
His copiousness finds room in the freer field of prose fiction, and his want of skill in selection is less noticeable there.
For the five years following the publication of The Mettle, Mr. Allen was silent; but he was working harder than ever before in his life upon manuscripts which he has come to regard as his most vital contributions to prose fiction.
Mrs. Waltz's chief contribution to prose fiction is her well-known character, "Pa Gladden.
This is one of the author's strongest pieces of prose fiction, though it has been well-nigh forgotten in its original form.
The first woman writer of prose fiction in England was the thrice noble and illustrious Princess Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle.
Mrs. Oliphant has been a most versatile writer, and followed almost every style of prose fiction; her domestic stories are generally considered her best.
Wuthering Heights stands alone in the history of prose fiction.
We should notice in the first place that Balzac has consciously tried almost every form of prose fiction, and has been nearly always splendidly successful.
His interweaving of characters and events through a series of volumes gives a verisimilitude to his work unrivaled in prose fiction, and paralleled only in the work of the world-poets.
You find none of them in prose plays and very few in prose fiction.
There is fiction in verse and there is prose fiction; there are verse dramas and prose plays, etc.
Some of the best poetry is found in the world's prose fiction.
Imaginative literature rightly takes first place in the representation of classes, and when made up of Prose Fiction, Poetry, Music and Painting, accounts for about 33 per cent.
Prose fiction, for reasons which it is not at all hard to discover, is in its more complete forms always a late product of literature.
Last of all, before coming to prose fiction, a vast if not very interesting class of miscellaneous prose work must be mentioned.
Some critics use the name "novel" for any work of prose fiction.
In this respect, if in no other, though perhaps he was so in others also, Chateaubriand is a Columbus of prose fiction.
Furthermore, it has to be remembered that this application of ornate style to prose fiction is undoubtedly to some extent an extraneous thing in the consideration of the novel itself.
All classes of literature contribute to this, but, with the exception of mere compilations and books in science or art which are outgrown, none so much as prose fiction.
In prose fiction, as we have seen, it stands alone.
Its descriptions, rendered through a magnifying glass as they are, have considerable power; and are quite unlike anything in prose fiction, and most things in prose literature, before it.
It is not improbable, though it is not certain, that he had already turned his attention to prose fiction of a kind.
As in an earlier age the drama had been born to cater to a popular taste, so in this, to satisfy the public demand, arose English prose fiction in its peculiar and enduring form.
The path of prose fiction, so handsomely opened by Richardson, was immediately entered and pursued by a genius of higher order, and as unlike him as it was possible to be.
For in spite of the faults of Queen Zarah, the preface is one of the most substantial discussions of prose fiction in the century.
All are of use in the short story, functioning as in other forms of prose fiction.
The short story is artistically the strictest form of prose fiction, that is, it is most strictly subject to the conventions of the art of fiction, of which maintenance of the point of view is one.
The whole discussion should awaken realization of the fact that the short story is the most difficult form of prose fiction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prose fiction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
