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Novels in the making.

Title
Novels in the making.
Author
Buckler, William E. (William Earl), 1924-1990
Publication
Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1961]

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Description
266 pages; 21 cm
Summary
The object of the book is to provide representative documents--distributed by time, type, and nationality--which suggest the problems and perceptions that have gone into the making of the modern novel.
Series Statement
Literature in the making
Uniform Title
Literature in the making.
Subject
  • Fiction > History and criticism
  • Fiction > Technique
  • Fiction
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Romantheorie
  • Vorwort
  • Roman
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Daniel Defoe : Preface to Moll Flanders (1722) -- Henry Fielding : Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742) -- Tobias Smollett : Preface to Roderick Random (1748) and Prefatory Address to Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) -- James Fenimore Cooper : Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales (1823-1841) and Preface to The Deerslayer (1841) -- Charles Dickens : "Number Plans" for David Copperfield (1850) -- Gustave Flaubert : Letters Relating to Madame Bovary (1856) -- Ivan Turgenew : "Apropos of Fathers and Sons" (1862) -- Count Leo Tolstoy : "A Few Words Concerning the Book War and Peace" (1865-1872) -- George Elliot : "Quarry for Middlemarch" (1871-1872) -- Emile Zola : Sketch for L'Assommoir (1877) -- Guy de Maupassant : Preface to Pierre et Jean (1888) -- Joseph Conrad : Preface to the Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1898) and Reminiscences about Nostromo (1904) and Preface to Nostromo (1904) and Preface to The Secret Agent (1907) -- Henry James : Notebook Entries Relating to The Wings of the Dove (1902) and Preface to the Wings of the Dove (1902) -- Arnold Bennett : Preface to The Old Wives' Tale (1908) -- D.H. Lawrence : "Foreword to Sons and Lovers" (1913) and Letter Relating to the Rainbow (1915) -- Andre Gide : Journal of The Counterfeiters (1926) -- Elizabeth Bowen : "Notes in Writing a Novel" (1946).
LCCN
61003378
OCLC
  • ocm01388606
  • 1388606
  • SCSB-591191
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library