Additional Reading

The following works deal in general terms with the reader’s approach to the novel:Walter Allen,Reading a Novel, rev. ed. (1963);Van Meter Ames,Aesthetics of the Novel (1928, reprinted 1966);Cleanth Brooks andR.P. Warren (eds.),Understanding Fiction, 3rd. ed. (1979);Alexander Comfort,The Novel and Our Time (1948);Pelham Edgar,The Art of the Novel (1933, reprinted 1966);Wilson Follett,The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and Meaning of Fiction, rev. ed. (1923);E.M. Forster,Aspects of the Novel (1927, many reprintings);Percy Lubbock,The Craft of Fiction, new ed. (1957).

The following are concerned with the problems of writing fiction and are all the work of novelists:Phyllis Bentley,Some Observations on the Art of Narrative (1946);Conrad’s Prefaces to His Works, with an essay byEdward Garnett (1937);Henry James,The Art of Fiction and Other Essays, ed. byMorris Roberts (1948), andThe Art of the Novel, introduction byR.P. Blackmur (1934);Edith Wharton,The Writing of Fiction (1925);Thomas Wolfe,The Story of a Novel (1936).

The various elements of the novel are dealt with in the following:Bonamy Dobree,Modern Prose Style, 2nd ed. (1964);Maren Elwood,Characters Make Your Story (1942);Manuel Komroff,How to Write a Novel (1950);W. Van O’Connor (ed.),Forms of Modern Fiction (1948);George G. Williams (ed.),Readings for Creative Writers (1938).

The following studies deal with the style and philosophy of the novel in the wider sense:David Daiches,The Novel and the Modern World, rev. ed. (1960);Agnes Hansen,Twentieth Century Forces in European Fiction (1934);Alfred Kazin,On Native Grounds (1942);Y. Krikorian (ed.),Naturalism and the Human Spirit (1944);George Lukacs,Studies in European Realism (1950), andThe Historical Novel (1962);H.J. Muller,Modern Fiction (1937); andMas’ud Zavarzadeh,The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel (1976).

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