Literary notes about Interesting (AI summary)
The term "interesting" in literature is employed as a versatile marker of value, curiosity, or significance, often inviting readers to pay closer attention. It can set the stage for events to be recounted later in a narrative, hinting at hidden depths or future revelations [1, 2]. Authors use it to describe characters whose unique qualities enrich their portrayals, whether noting their unconventional charm [3, 4] or their exceptional, memorable traits [5, 6]. At times, it underscores the peculiarity of a phenomenon or subject matter, from financial matters in a declining empire to portraits of historical institutions [7, 8]. Across these varied contexts, "interesting" serves both as an evaluative comment and a prompt, inciting further reflection and engagement with the text [9, 10, 11].
- But of all these interesting events I will speak later.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - But I must tell you, for it’s an interesting story, my marriage, in its own way.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "Mr. Pollard is not merely an interesting man, but a courageous one....
— from A Diplomat in Japan by Ernest Mason Satow - I notice that you’ve begun to be very attentive... you interesting young man....” Svidrigaïlov struck the table with his fist impatiently.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Franklin had a most interesting, varied, and unusual life.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin - That florid sociable personage was become more interesting to him since he had seen Rosamond.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - An attempt to explain them may perhaps reflect some light on the interesting subject of the finances of the declining empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - An interesting document which has survived from the close of the Han period is the short preface written by the Great Ts`ao Ts`ao, or
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - But I saw something else more interesting.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - I warn my "kyind friends," then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated—but, as I trust, intensely interesting—crime.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - One of the most interesting conclusions here arrived at is that Brahma is theoretically unknowable, but can be comprehended practically.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
