A Critic's Notebook

Howe, Irving

ISBN 10: 0151199493 / ISBN 13: 9780151199495

Published by Harcourt, Brace, 1994

About this Item

(1st) Edited and Intro. by Nicholas Howe. Essays on Bennett, Woolf, Characterization, Criticism, Dickens, Kipling, Tolstoy and others. Sturdy book, dark blue covers, very bright gilt lettering on spine, a pattern of publisher's dates inside covers and adjacent end papers, 364 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with dark gray spine and font left, back right, light gray elsewhere, praise on back from The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. DJ and book, both As New.

Seller Inventory # 09603

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Critic's Notebook
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151199493
• ISBN 13: 9780151199495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• 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.