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The Craft of Fiction

by Percy Lubbock

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To grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book to hold it fast to turn it over and survey it at leisure-that is the effort of a critic of books and it is perpetually defeated.

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Canonical title: The Craft of Fiction
Original title: The Craft of Fiction
Original publication date: 1921-09

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Languages: English
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ISBNs: 27
ASINs: 14

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Published: 1921
Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 808.3
LCC: PN3355 .L8

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