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Release date is 2018-12-14

Emerson -- The life of George Eliot -- Daniel Deronda: a conversation -- Anthony Trollope -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Miss Woolson -- Alphonse Daudet -- Guy de Maupassant -- Ivan Turgénieff -- George Du Maurier -- The art of fiction.

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"Partial Portraits" by Henry James is a collection of literary criticism published in 1888. This influential work gathers James's essays on major English, American, and European writers, exploring their unique artistic visions and techniques. The centerpiece is "The Art of Fiction," James's landmark argument for complete creative freedom in narrative writing. Through penetrating analyses of authors like George Eliot, Maupassant, and Turgenev, James champions each writer's distinctive perspective while establishing fiction's place among the fine arts. His elegant criticism reveals how different novelists view life through their own creative windows. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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