num_pages: 240
description: A posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. "These are aristocrats among essays...witty, beautifully mannered and mellow" (Rumer Godden, New York Herald Tribune). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.Part 1: The art of fiction. The narrow bridge of art ; Hours in a library ; Impassioned prose ; Life and the novelist ; On rereading Meredith ; The anatomy of fiction ; Gothic romance ; The supernatural in fiction ; Henry James's ghost stories ; A terribly sensitive mind ; Women and fiction ; An essay in criticism ; Phases of fictionPart 2: The art of biography. The new biography ; A talk about memoirs ; Sir Walter Raleigh ; Sterne ; Eliza and Sterne ; Horace Walpole ; A friend of Johnson ; Fanny Burney's half-sister ; Money and love ; The dream ; The fleeting portrait : 1. Waxworks at the Abbey, 2. The Royal Academy ; Poe's Helen ; Visits to Walt Whitman ; Oliver Wendell Holmes
language: English
title: Granite and Rainbow: Essays
titlecomplete: Granite and Rainbow: Essays
genres: Essays, Classics, British Literature, Writing, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 97
publisher: Mariner Books Classics