The Craft of Fiction (Jonathan Cape Paperback; 29)

By Percy Lubbock

Book Overview

"No more substantial or more charming volume of criticism has been published in our time. To say that this is the best book on the subject is probably true but it is more to the point to say that it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224609114
• ISBN13: 9780224609111
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Foundational

This, like E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel," is an essential work of criticism, and it's nice to see it back in print. Lubbock's outlook is an extension of Henry James's. He is more immediately accessible than the Master, and he illustrates the "craft" by reference to classic novels such as Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," and of course James's own works, particularly "The Ambassadors." Lubbock, Forster, F. R. Leavis's "The Great Tradition," and Ian Watt's "Rise of the Novel" give you what you need to know if you want to understand the central canon in Anglo-American and European fiction.

A MUST BUY

This is the book recommended by graham greene in his autobiography.he had studied this book inside out before embarking on his illustrious career. I suppose no other stamp off approval is needed after that.....