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Subtitle: An Essay on the Novel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781472508393
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism; Plots (drama, novel, etc.); Ethics in literature
Description: "In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction 'story, the working-out of a moral problem, and "truthfulness", defined as "the lively representation of reality". From this standpoint she discusses and elucidates some characteristic excellences and limitations of a number of major novels and novelists, including Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.