Essays on Modern Novelists

By William Lyon Phelps · Running time 06:38:47 · Essays & Short Works, Literary Criticism

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A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and he added to those biographical essays some of his ideas about the importance of novels in the process of teaching about literature. (Summary by Piotr Nater)

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