The Art of Criticism

The Art of Criticism

Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction

by Henry James, Susan M. Griffin, William Veeder

517 pages· 1986· ISBN 9780226391977
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A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--Back cover.

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