The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces (edition 1934)

by Henry James

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Title:	The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces
Authors:	Henry James
Info:	Charles Scribner's Sons (1934), Hardcover
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Those texts are prefaces that James wrote for a reprint of his novels. Ezra Pound, in his ABC of Literature, tells that those texts are the best possible way to study how to write novels. James methodic approach is all presented in a way that unecessary a previous reading of his works. (

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