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The Craft of Fiction (Illustrated)

ByPercy Lubbock

To grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book, to hold it fast, to turn it over and survey it at leisure—that is the effort of a critic of books, and it is perpetually defeated. Nothing, no power, will keep a book steady and motionless before us, so that we may have time to examine its shape and design. As quickly as we read, it melts and shifts in the memory; even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it? A cluster of impressions, some clear points emerging from a mist of uncertainty, this is all we can hope to possess, generally speaking, in the name of a book.

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Publication Date
May 7, 2013
Language
English
ISBN
9781304017192
Category
Reference
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Percy Lubbock

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Format
EPUB

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