The art of writing.
By: Translated by Gerard Hopkins.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Chiefly translations from Lecture mon deux plaisir.
Table of contents: title: The writer's craft.; title: Voltaire: novels and tales.; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the confessions.; title: Stendhal: Le rouge et le noir.; title: Balzac: Le père Goriot, César Birotteau.; title: Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary.; title: Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu.; title: Goethe: a decisive turning-point in his life.; title: Giacomo Leopardi.; title: Tolstoy and married life.; title: The life, the art, and the philosophy of Anton Tchekov.; title: Nicolas Gogol.; title: The art of Turgenev.