The Craft of Fiction (The Traveller's Library)

276 pp. "Proof of the soundness of Mr. Lubbock's approach to a craft which in every age produces experimenters and innovators is the continuing popularity of this book since its original publication in 1921. Mr. Lubbock considers the principal works of a number of major authors. He first analyzes these works in regard to the restrictions the author imposed upon himself in choosing the manner of presenting his story; then he considers various questions regarding the suitability or inadequacy of that form in obtaining the optimum effect from the story."