Partial Portraits by Henry James
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"Partial Portraits" by Henry James is a collection of literary criticism published in 1888. This influential work gathers James's essays on major English, American, and European writers, exploring their unique artistic visions and techniques. The centerpiece is "The Art of Fiction," James's landmark argument for complete creative freedom in narrative writing. Through penetrating analyses of authors like George Eliot, Maupassant, and Turgenev, James champions each writer's distinctive perspective while establishing fiction's place
among the fine arts. His elegant criticism reveals how different novelists view life through their own creative windows. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | James, Henry, 1843-1916 |
|---|---|
| Title | Partial Portraits |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Portraits |
| Contents | Emerson -- The life of George Eliot -- Daniel Deronda: a conversation -- Anthony Trollope -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Miss Woolson -- Alphonse Daudet -- Guy de Maupassant -- Ivan Turgénieff -- George Du Maurier -- The art of fiction. |
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Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 61.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections |
| Subject | Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 |
| Subject | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 |
| Subject | Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 |
| Subject | Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896 |
| Subject | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
| Subject | Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
| Subject | Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897 |
| Subject | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 |
| Subject | Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 |
| Subject | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 58471 |
| Release Date | Dec 14, 2018 |
| Last Update | Jun 15, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 857 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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