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Title: The Craft of Fiction
Author: Percy Lubbock
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Language: English
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THE CRAFT OF FICTION
by
PERCY LUBBOCK
Jonathan Cape
Eleven Gower Street, London
First Published 1921.
THE CRAFT OF FICTION
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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.
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