Essays on Modern Novelists

by William Lyon PHELPS (1865 - 1943)

RUDYARD KIPLING

Essays on Modern Novelists

A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and he added to those biographical essays some of his ideas about the importance of novels in the process of teaching about literature. (Summary by Piotr Nater)


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APPENDIX A NOVELS AS A UNIVERSITY STUDY , APPENDIX B THE TEACHER'S ATTITUDE TOWARD CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE , APPENDIX C TWO POEMS , ''LORNA DOONE''