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Lecture Part 1

In The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW

Walter Besant and Henry James and Henry James

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

In Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman

Mark Twain

This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essa…

Introduction Part 1

In Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Read by Ray Clare

G. K. Chesterton

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…

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