A Critic's Notebook

Howe, Irving

ISBN 10: 0151199493 / ISBN 13: 9780151199495

Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

(First Thus) Slightly smaller book, dark green cloth spine, dark blue boards, gilt lettering very bright on spine, logo design inside covers and adjacent end papers, 364 lightly browned heavy pages. DJ beneath mylar, green and gray, praise on back from the New Yorker and Chicago Tribune. DJ has light crease at top front right of spine top. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Seller Inventory # 25366

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Critic's Notebook
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co., San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151199493
• ISBN 13: 9780151199495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

About this title

Synopsis

This collection of accessible, idiosyncratic essays explores such enduring literary concepts as character, style, tone, and genre. All have their origin in Howe's passion, moral striving, and abiding faith in the common reader. Edited and with an Introduction by Nicholas Howe.

Synopsis

A collection of essays on fiction explore the concepts of character, style, tone, and genre, commenting on such literary giants as, Fielding, Sterne, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, and Kipling.