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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.)
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896 Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897 Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893