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| Author: | Arnold Bennett |
| Category: | Modern Press [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 26 Apr 2005 |
| Pages: | 233 |
| File Size: | 1.49 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 738,351 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Author: Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
Title: Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911
Contents: Wilfred Whitten's prose -- Ugliness in fiction -- Letters of Queen Victoria -- French publishers -- Wordsworth's single lines -- Novelists and agents -- The novel of the season -- German expansion -- The book-buyer -- Joseph Conrad and the Athenæum -- The professors -- Mrs. Humphry Ward's heroines -- W.W. Jacobs and Aristophanes -- Kenneth Grahame -- Anatole France -- Intimations of immortality -- Mallarmé, Bazin, Swinburne -- The ruined season -- "Ecce homo" -- Henry Ospovat -- French and British academies -- Poe and the short story -- Middle-class -- The potential public -- H.G. Wells -- Tchehkoff -- The Surrey labourer -- Swinburne -- The Sevenpennies -- Meredith -- St. John Hankin -- Unclean books -- Trollope's methods -- Chesterton and Lucas -- Official recognition of poetry -- Artists and critics -- Rudyard Kipling -- Censorship by the libraries [1909] -- Censorship by the libraries [1910] -- Brieux -- C.E. Montague -- Publishers and authors -- Tourgeniev and Dostoievsky -- John Galsworthy -- Suppressions in "De Profundis" -- Holiday reading -- The British Academy of Letters -- Unfinished perusals -- Mr. A.C. Benson -- The literary periodical -- The length of novels -- Artists and money -- Henri Becque -- Henry James -- English literary criticism -- Mrs. Elinor Glyn -- W.H. Hudson -- Neo-impressionism and literature -- Books of the year -- "The new Machiavelli" -- Success in journalism -- Marguerite Audoux -- John Masefield -- Lectures and state performances -- A play of Tchehkoff's -- Sea and slaughter -- A book in a railway accident -- "Fiction" and "literature."
Language: English
LoC Class: PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Release Date: Apr 26, 2005
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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