In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction - story, the working-out of a moral problem, and "truthfulness", defined as "the lively representation of reality". From this standpoint she discusses and elucidates some characteristic excellences and limitations of a number of major novels and novelists, including Defoe, Charlotte Bront???, George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.
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In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction - story, the working-out of a moral problem, and "truthfulness", defined as "the lively representation of reality". From this standpoint she discusses and elucidates some characteristic excellences and limitations of a number of major novels and novelists, including Defoe, Charlotte Bront???, George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.
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Northwestern University Pr, 1971. Good., Paperback, Small octavo, 218. Text clean. 218 pages. Diagonal crease in rear cover. Packed and shipped with care.
