The art of writing.
Maurois, André, 1885-1967.
The art of writing. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. - New York, Dutton, 1960. - 320 p. 19 cm.
Essays, chiefly translations from Lecture mon doux plaisir.
The writer's craft -- Voltaire: novels and tales -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the confessions -- Stendhal: Le rouge et le noir -- Balzac: Le père Goriot, César Birotteau -- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary -- Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu -- Goethe: a decisive turning-point in his life -- Giacomo Leopardi -- Tolstoy and married life -- The life, the art, and the philosophy of Anton Tchekov -- Nicolas Gogol -- The art of Turgenev.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
The art of writing. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. - New York, Dutton, 1960. - 320 p. 19 cm.
Essays, chiefly translations from Lecture mon doux plaisir.
The writer's craft -- Voltaire: novels and tales -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the confessions -- Stendhal: Le rouge et le noir -- Balzac: Le père Goriot, César Birotteau -- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary -- Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu -- Goethe: a decisive turning-point in his life -- Giacomo Leopardi -- Tolstoy and married life -- The life, the art, and the philosophy of Anton Tchekov -- Nicolas Gogol -- The art of Turgenev.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century