Aspects of fiction and other ventures in criticism.
Publisher: Literature House; Harper & Brothers
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Description: American literature -- Two studies of the South -- The penalty of humor -- On pleasing the taste of the public -- On Certain parallelisms between the ancient drama and the modern -- Two Scotsmen of letters, Mr. Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson -- Aspects of fiction.
Notes: Reprint of the 1896 ed.
Table of contents: title: American literature.; title: Two studies of the South.; title: The penalty of humor.; title: On pleasing the taste of the public.; title: On certain parallelisms between the ancient drama and the modern.; title: Two Scotsmen of letters: Mr. Andrew Lang; Robert Louis Stevenson.; title: Aspects of fiction: The gift of story-telling. Cervantes, Zola, Kipling & co.. The prose tales of M. François Coppée. The short stories of M. Ludovic Halévy. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner as a writer of fiction. Text-books of fiction.