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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931. Books and persons. New York, George H. Doran [c1917] (OCoLC)563634096 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnold Bennett |
| OCLC Number: | 601945 |
| Description: | xii, 337 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | [1.] 1908: Wilfred Whitten's prose -- Ugliness in fiction -- Letters of Queen Victoria -- French publishers -- Wordsworth's single lines -- Novelists and agents -- The novel of the season -- German expansion -- The book-buyer -- Joseph Conrad and the Athenæum -- The professors -- Mrs. Humphry Ward's heroines -- W.W. Jacobs and Aristophanes -- Kenneth Grahame -- Anatole France -- Intimations of immortality -- Mallarmé, Bazin, Swinburne -- The ruined season -- [2.] 1909: "Ecce homo" -- Henry Ospovat -- French and British academies -- Poe and the short story -- Middle-class -- The potential public -- H.G. Wells -- Tchehkoff -- The Surrey labourer -- Swinburne -- The Sevenpennies -- Meredith -- St. John Hankin -- Unclean books -- Trollope's methods -- Chesterton and Lucas -- Official recognition of poetry -- Artists and critics -- Rudyard Kipling -- Censorship by the libraries -- [3.] 1910: Censorship by the libraries -- Brieux -- C.E. Montague -- Publishers and authors -- Tourgenieff and Dostoievsky -- John Galsworthy -- Holiday reading -- The British Academy of Letters -- Unfinished perusals -- Mr. A.C. Benson -- The literary periodical -- The length of novels -- Artists and money -- Henri Becque -- Henry James -- English literary criticism -- Mrs. Elinor Glyn -- W.H. Hudson -- Neo-impressionism and literature -- [4.] 1911: Books of the year -- "The new Machiavelli" -- Success in journalism -- Marguerite Audoux -- John Masefield -- Lectures and state performances -- A play of Tchehkoff's -- Sea and slaughter -- A book in a railway accident -- "Fiction" and "literature." |
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