The eye of the story: selected essays and reviews
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9780679730040
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
1. On writers: The radiance of Jane Austen --
Henry Green: novelist of the imagination --
Katherine Anne Porter: the eye of the story --
The house of Willa Cather --
Reality in Chekhov's stories --
2. On writing: Looking at short stories --
Writing and analyzing a story --
Place in fiction --
Words into fiction --
Must the novelist crusade? --
"Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" --
Some notes on time in fiction --
3. Reviews: The Western journals of Washington Irving / edited and annotated by John Francis McDermott --
Names on the land / by George R. Stewart --
Granite and rainbow / by Virginia Woolf --
The letters of Virginia Woolf, volume II / edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joann Trautmann --
Charlotte's web / by E.B. White --
Intruder in the dust / by William Faulkner --
Selected letters of William Faulkner / edited by Joseph Blotner --
Marianne Thornton / by E.M. Forster --
The life to come, and other stories / by E.M. Forster --
The most of S.J. Perelman; Baby, its cold inside / by S.J. Perelman --
The saddest story: a biography of Ford Madox Ford / by Arthur Mizener --
The underground man / by Ross Macdonald --
Last tales / by Isak Dinesen --
The cockatoo / by Patrick White --
Pictures and conversations / by Elizabeth Bowen --
4. Personal and occasional pieces: A sweet devouring --
Some notes on river country --
Fairy tale of the Natchez Trace --
A pageant of birds --
The flavor of Jackson --
The little store --
Ida M'Toy --
One time, one place.
From the Book - Vintage International ed.
1. On writers: The radiance of Jane Austen --
Henry Green: novelist of the imagination --
Katherine Anne Porter: the eye of the story --
The house of Willa Cather --
Reality in Chekhov's stories --
2. On writing: Looking at short stories --
Writing and analyzing a story --
Place in fiction --
Words into fiction --
Must the novelist crusade? --
"Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" --
Some notes on time in fiction --
3. Reviews: The Western journals of Washington Irving / edited and annotated by John Francis McDermott --
Names on the land / by George R. Stewart --
Granite and rainbow / by Virginia Woolf --
The letters of Virginia Woolf, volume II / edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joann Trautmann --
Charlotte's web / by E.B. White --
Intruder in the dust / by William Faulkner --
Selected letters of William Faulkner / edited by Joseph Blotner --
Marianne Thornton / by E.M. Forster --
The life to come, and other stories / by E.M. Forster --
The most of S.J. Perelman; Baby, its cold inside / by S.J. Perelman --
The saddest story: a biography of Ford Madox Ford / by Arthur Mizener --
The underground man / by Ross Macdonald --
Last tales / by Isak Dinesen --
The cockatoo / by Patrick White --
Pictures and conversations / by Elizabeth Bowen --
4. Personal and occasional pieces: A sweet devouring --
Some notes on river country --
Fairy tale of the Natchez Trace --
A pageant of birds --
The flavor of Jackson --
The little store --
Ida M'Toy --
One time, one place.
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