My Early Life has countless minor pleasures, and two great set-piece narratives, the Battle of Omdurman (1898) and, in another theatre of imperial conflict, Churchill's capture by the Boers (The Armoured Train) in 1899.
Same goes for long investigative pieces and narrative pieces in the newspaper.
But the emphasis on technique over emotion and set pieces over narrative make this a tough proposition for anyone seeking more than spectacle.
To make some of the most popular characters from "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" pop up in "Voyage of the Dawn Treader," three screenwriters grafted on bits and pieces of narrative from other novels in the series.
And the first chapter of Mr. Ellis's book, "The Founding Brothers," about the duel in which Aaron Burr killed Hamilton, is widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of narrative nonfiction in modern literature.
Though it results in some dramatic set pieces, this narrative strategy can be distracting for the reader, who frequently stops to wonder how Dolores could possibly know what she is describing with such omniscient fervor.
Text reading was tested with two short pieces of narrative text at each time point.
But it was a long one-joke piece whose narrative was unclear, though the ornamented head spin that ended the piece was dazzling.
Explain your art in a piece of narrative writing.
He believes that too much prettiness limits a piece's narrative potential.
