The Art of Fiction
Subtitle: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: July 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140174922
Subjects: Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Reference; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; English fiction; American fiction; Criticism; History and criticism; Terminology; Theory, etc
First sentence: Even Thetis, dipping her mortal boy In Styx, dreaming of armoring him Against both worlds, gripping her joy In fatal fingers, allowed the dim Danger of her handhold on his heel.