Zona Gale's Miss Lulu Bett, an American Comedy of Manners (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Miss. Lulu Bett, an American Comedy of Manners:

The line, "Land sakes, ain't them pies done yet?", which opens the first act of our rural dramas' old-home talk, has become so theatrical that even when a genuine housewife says it in a real kitchen, we suspect her of trying to talk like an actress, despite its affectation of naturalness.

Into this babel of artificial dialogue came Miss Lulu Bett, bearing the revolutionary banner of banality. Under this banner march ninety-nine one-hundredths of American conversationalists. Zona Gale, in both her book and play, 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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The old-home talk of our rural dramas has become so theatrical that even when a genuine housewife says the line, "Land sakes, ain't them pies done yet?", which opens the first act, we suspect her of trying to talk like an actress, despite its affectation of naturalness.

Miss Lulu Bett, bearing the revolutionary banner of banality, entered this babel of artificial dialogue. Under this banner march ninety-nine one-hundredths of American conversationalists. Zona Gale, in both her book and play, 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.

Forgotten Books is a publisher that specializes in rare and classic books, and this book is a reproduction of an important historical work. The company uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format while 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 their edition. However, the vast majority of imperfections are successfully repaired, and any that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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