The Art of Fiction by Henry James

The Art of Fiction

Henry James

46 pages first pub 1884 (editions) user-added

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The Art of Fiction, critical essay by Henry James, published in 1884 in Longman’s Magazine. It was written as a rebuttal to “Fiction as One of the Fine Arts,” a lecture given by Sir Walter Besant in 1884, and is a manifesto of literary realism tha...

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