num_pages: 270
description: From the cover of the 1964 edition: "A master of contemporary criticism—called by Thomas Mann 'the most important literary critic of today'—explores the great tradition of the novel as exemplified in the works of Balzac, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Zola, and Gorki."
language: English
title: Studies in European Realism
publisher: Putnam Pub Group